android2po

Converts Android resource files to Gettext PO format.

Usage

android2po [options] <android> <po>

Where:

<android>

is a valid Android resource file or directory of those files

<po>

is a directory of PO or POT files
Options:
--version

show program’s version number and exit

-h, --help

show this help message and exit

--manpage

output a manpage based on the help

--progress=PROGRESS

show progress as: dots, none, bar, names, verbose

--errorlevel=ERRORLEVEL

show errorlevel as: none, message, exception, traceback

-i INPUT, --input=INPUT

read from INPUT in xml format

-x EXCLUDE, --exclude=EXCLUDE

exclude names matching EXCLUDE from input paths

-o OUTPUT, --output=OUTPUT

write to OUTPUT in po, pot formats

-t TEMPLATE, --template=TEMPLATE

read from TEMPLATE in xml format

-S, --timestamp

skip conversion if the output file has newer timestamp

--duplicates=DUPLICATESTYLE

what to do with duplicate strings (identical source text): merge, msgctxt (default: ‘msgctxt’)

Examples

These examples demonstrate the use of android2po:

android2po -i strings-en.xml -o en.po

to simply convert strings-en.xml to en.po.

To convert a source and target Android resources files into a PO file:

android2po -t strings-en.xml -i strings-ca.xml -o ca.po

strings-en.xml contains the template resource and strings-ca.xml the localised resource strings.