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PO Gettext

  • File extension: *.po / *.pot
  • Localization type: “gettext”
  • Pluralization: yes
  • Description: yes
  • Translations Upload: yes
  • Custom Attributes: yes

File Sample

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2008-09-03 10:09+0200\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <kde-i18n-doc@kde.org>\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=INTEGER; plural=EXPRESSION;\n"

#: simple string sample
msgid "Text for translation"
msgstr ""

#. sample with translated string
msgid "Text for translation"
msgstr "Translated string"

#, long string with new line
msgid ""
"Very long string.\n"
"Even longer string"
msgstr ""
"translation\n"
"translation_2"

#: plurals
#, string with plurals forms
msgid "Time: %1 second"
msgid_plural "Time: %1 seconds"
msgstr[0] "Czas: %1 sekunda"
msgstr[1] "Czas: %1 sekundy"
msgstr[2] "Czas: %1 sekund"

Custom Attributes

Source text will be taken from the msgstr node:

"X-Crowdin-SourceKey: msgstr\n"

Comment

Comment to the string can be indicated by the following characters: # #: #. #, #| #~

#: comment to the string
msgid "Text for translation"
msgstr ""

Plurals

msgid "Time: %1 second"
msgid_plural "Time: %1 seconds"
msgstr[0] "Czas: %1 sekunda"
msgstr[1] "Czas: %1 sekundy"
msgstr[2] "Czas: %1 sekund"

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