How can you locate the .po file used for translation of a page?

1. How do I translate a .po file?
2. What is a .po file?
3. How do I read a .po file?
4. What are .po and .mo files?
5. How do I open a translation file?
6. How do you translate POEditor?
7. How do PO files work?
8. How do I make a .P file?
9. What is gettext used for?
10. What is a PO in translation?

How do I translate a .po file?

How to translate Gettext . po files

1. Create translation project. Login to your account, create a new translation project and add your software's source language to it.
2. Import gettext . po file. ...
3. Start localization. Add your desired languages for translation, invite your contributors to join and start localizing your po files.

What is a .po file?

A . PO file is a portable object file, which is text-based. These types of files are used in commonly in software development. ... These files are saved in a human-readable format so that they can be viewed in a text editor by engineers and translators.

How do I read a .po file?

Simply double click a file to launch it instantly in Poedit. Because POT, . PO and . MO files are standard translation and language files, the Poedit software automatically lists the original string along with the translation.

What are .po and .mo files?

MO – Machine Object.

The MO file includes the exact same contents as PO file. The two files differ in their format. While a PO file is a text file and is easy for humans to read, MO files are compiled and are easy for computers to read. Your web server will use the MO file to display the translations.

How do I open a translation file?

How to Open a File for Translation

1. Click the Files button in the navigation pane. All of the files in the active project are displayed in the Files view.
2. In the box at the top of the Files view navigation pane, select the required target language. ...
3. Right-click the file and select Open for Translation from the shortcut menu.

How do you translate POEditor?

In any language page, click in the menu on Automatic Translation, then select the language pair for the machine translation engine ('I want to translate from' and 'to') and the translation source in your project (the strings you want to translate).

How do PO files work?

PO files. PO files are the files that contain the actual translations. ... The msgid line contains the text actually in the code, and the msgstr line contains the translated text. If the msgstr is empty, then on the site the source text will be used instead.

How do I make a .P file?

Generating a PO file for a theme

1. Go to WPML → Theme and plugins localization.
2. Select the theme you want.
3. At the bottom of the page, click Scan selected themes for strings.
4. When scanning is done close the pop-up dialog.
5. Go to WPML → String translation.
6. In the Export strings into . po/.

What is gettext used for?

The gettext, dgettext and dcgettext functions attempt to translate a text string into the user's native language, by looking up the translation in a message catalog. The msgid argument identifies the message to be translated.

What is a PO in translation?

PO file translation

PO files are text files that contain strings of text and space for them to be translated. ... Thanks to the tools we use to translate this kind of file, we can process files so that the tags they contain are protected during the translation process and are preserved in the translated file.