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NAME

       intltool-prepare - Prepare software to make use of intltool

SYNOPSIS

       intltool-prepare [option] [KEYWORD]...

DESCRIPTION

       For  software  packages that include some specific type of translatable
       files (such as .desktop  and  .soundlist),  before  they  make  use  of
       intltool,  translators  have  to  dig  through them one by one, and add
       their localization into each file. This process is error  prone,  since
       translators  may  include  typing  errors, or add their localization in
       wrong encoding. Besides, translators may not  alwas  know  other  files
       (beside .po files) are translatable.

       intltool  avoids  all  the  problems above by extracting strings inside
       those translatable files into po template (.pot) file. All  translators
       need  to care about is just translating po files. Afterwards, intltool-
       merge(8) will merge localized strings into those files.

       Before your software becomes intltool-aware, a few issues  have  to  be
       sorted  out,  and  intltool-prepare  tries to take care of all of them.
       intltool-prepare will:

       · Extract all localized strings  in  .desktop  style  files  (including
         ".desktop",    ".soundlist",    ".keys"    and   ".directory")   into
         corresponding po files.

       · Convert the translatable files into templates that don’t contain  any
         localization.

       · Add the list of template files above into POTFILES.in.

       · Add  the  list  of old translatable files into .cvsignore (since they
         will be generated by intltool later).

       · Add the rules for generating these files into Makefile.am.

       NOTE: You must  change  working  directory  to  the  top  level  source
       directory before running intltool-prepare.

OPTIONS

       KEYWORD  is  a list of additional keywords beside "Name", "Comment" and
       "description". intltool-prepare will recognize any line  starting  with
       those KEYWORD and extract localized strings after equal sign ("=").

       -x
       --verbose
           Be verbose to give user additional feedback.

       -v
       --version
           Show version information.
       -h
       --help
           Show usage and basic help information.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to http://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool

AUTHOR

       Darin Adler <darin@bentspoon.com>
       Kenneth Christiansen <kenneth@gnu.org>
       Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>

SEE ALSO

       intltoolize(8),   intltool-update(8),   intltool-extract(8),  intltool-
       merge(8)