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.IX Title "PO2DEBCONF 1"
.TH PO2DEBCONF 1 "2018-11-20" "" "po-debconf"
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.SH "NAME"
po2debconf \- merge master templates file and PO files
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
\&\fBpo2debconf\fR
[\fB\-v\fR] [\fB\-h\fR]
[\fB\-\-podir=\f(BI\s-1DIR\s0\fB\fR]
[\fB\-o \f(BI\s-1FILE\s0\fB\fR]
[\fB\-e \f(BI\s-1STRING\s0\fB\fR]
\&\fImaster\fR
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This program reads all \s-1PO\s0 files and a single \fItemplates\fR file, and
produces a Debconf templates file containing all translations, similar
to the one produced by \fBdebconf\-mergetemplate\fR\|(1) (from the
\&\f(CW\*(C`debconf\-utils\*(C'\fR package).  \s-1PO\s0 files are by default searched in the
\&\fIpo\fR subdirectory below the location of the master file.
.PP
To help the language code transition for Norwegian Bokmål, the
\&\fBno\fR and \fBnb\fR language codes are handled specially.  If \fIno.po\fR exists,
it should be renamed to \fInb.po\fR.  Using \fInb.po\fR will make both \f(CW\*(C`\-no\*(C'\fR
and \f(CW\*(C`\-nb\*(C'\fR translations available in the templates file.
.PP
Lines beginning with a number sign (\f(CW\*(C`#\*(C'\fR) are comments in templates files.
They are useful to give hints to translators, and are discarded by \fBpo2debconf\fR.
Special comments have been introduced in \f(CW\*(C`po\-debconf\*(C'\fR 1.0.  They are in the
form \f(CW\*(C`#flag:\f(CIdirective\f(CW\*(C'\fR.  The \f(CW\*(C`#flag:partial\*(C'\fR is the only directive
interpreted by \fBpo2debconf\fR.  Normally when a field is composed of several
paragraphs (like \f(CW\*(C`_\|_Choices\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`_Description\*(C'\fR), it is translated if all
paragraphs are translated.  When a field contains \f(CW\*(C`#flag:partial\*(C'\fR, translated
strings may be mixed with untranslated strings.
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
.IP "\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR" 4
.IX Item "-h, --help"
Display a usage summary and exit.
.IP "\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR" 4
.IX Item "-v, --verbose"
Process in verbose mode.
.IP "\fB\-\-podir=\f(BI\s-1DIR\s0\fB\fR" 4
.IX Item "--podir=DIR"
Set directory for \s-1PO\s0 files.  Default is to search \s-1PO\s0 files in the \fIpo\fR
subdirectory below the location of the master file.
.IP "\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-output=\f(BI\s-1FILE\s0\fB\fR" 4
.IX Item "-o, --output=FILE"
Set output filename (default is standard output).
.IP "\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-encoding=\f(BI\s-1STRING\s0\fB\fR" 4
.IX Item "-e, --encoding=STRING"
Convert encoding.  Argument can take 3 values: \f(CW\*(C`utf8\*(C'\fR (convert to
\&\s-1UTF\-8\s0), \f(CW\*(C`po\*(C'\fR (do not change encoding) and \f(CW\*(C`popular\*(C'\fR (convert
encoding of input files depending on their language; the
\&\f(CW\*(C`PODEBCONF_ENCODINGS\*(C'\fR environment variable must point to a name of a file
containing the encoding map).
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Such a filename looks like:
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\&  #
\&  #   Number is comment sign
\&  #
\&  cs       ISO\-8859\-2
\&  da       ISO\-8859\-1
\&  de       ISO\-8859\-1
\&  el       ISO\-8859\-7
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etc.
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Default encoding used to be \f(CW\*(C`popular\*(C'\fR, and has been switched to \f(CW\*(C`utf8\*(C'\fR
since po-debconf 0.9.0.
.SH "OUTPUT FORMAT"
.IX Header "OUTPUT FORMAT"
Since debconf 1.2.0, templates format has changed, encoding is part of
field names, i.e. they are \f(CW\*(C`foo\-\f(CIlang\f(CW.\f(CIencoding\f(CW\*(C'\fR.  When older
debconf encounter such fields, they are silently ignored, which means
that original text is displayed.
.PP
If present, a \fIpo/output\fR file can override defaults for encoding and
output format.  It contains a single line with two fields. The first field is the output format
(currently valid values are 1 for fields in the form \f(CW\*(C`foo\-\f(CIlang\f(CW\*(C'\fR,
and 2 for \f(CW\*(C`foo\-\f(CIlang\f(CW.\f(CIencoding\f(CW\*(C'\fR) and the second field is the encoding, e.g.
.PP
.Vb 1
\&   echo \*(Aq2 utf8\*(Aq > po/output
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.PP
let \fBpo2debconf\fR convert text to \s-1UTF\-8.\s0
.PP
When encoding is set to \f(CW\*(C`po\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`utf8\*(C'\fR, output format is always set to
2, so that older debconf do not try to display text with wrong
encodings.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBdebconf\-gettextize\fR\|(1),
\&\fBdebconf\-updatepo\fR\|(1),
\&\fBpo\-debconf\fR\|(7).
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
.Vb 1
\&  Denis Barbier <barbier@linuxfr.org>
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