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XGETTEXT(1)                          User Contributed Perl Documentation                         XGETTEXT(1)



NAME
       xgettext.pl - Extract translatable strings from source

SYNOPSIS
       xgettext.pl [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       This program extracts translatable strings from given input files, or from STDIN if none are given.

       Please see Locale::Maketext::Extract for a list of supported input file formats.

OPTIONS
       Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.  Similarly for optional
       arguments.

       Input file location:


       INPUTFILE...
           Files to extract messages from.  If not specified, STDIN is assumed.

       -f, --files-from=FILE
           Get list of input files from FILE.

       -D, --directory=DIRECTORY
           Add DIRECTORY to list for input files search.

       Input file format:


       -u, --use-gettext-style
           Specifies that the source programs uses the Gettext style (e.g.  %1) instead of the Maketext
           style (e.g. "[_1]") in its localization calls.

       Output file location:


       -d, --default-domain=NAME
           Use NAME.po for output, instead of "messages.po".

       -o, --output=FILE
           PO file name to be written or incrementally updated; "-" means writing to STDOUT.

       -p, --output-dir=DIR
           Output files will be placed in directory DIR.

       Output details:


       -g, --gnu-gettext
           Enables GNU gettext interoperability by printing "#, perl-maketext-format" before each entry that
           has "%" variables.

SEE ALSO
       Locale::Maketext::Extract, Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext, Locale::Maketext

AUTHORS
       Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

       See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

POD ERRORS
       Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained below:

       Around line 47:
           '=item' outside of any '=over'

       Around line 53:
           You forgot a '=back' before '=head2'



perl v5.8.8                                      2006-06-15                                      XGETTEXT(1)