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Asked by Dainius 'GreatEmerald' Masiliūnas

I need to add a special type of files to the translations - not to translate the code files itself, but instead I already have different files that needs translating. To keep it short, this is an example of what I need to translate: http://pastebin.com/m2ec416e The syntax is much like of an INI file. Users should be given the string in a category (example: [KingOfTheHill]), after an equals sign (example: ClassCaption=): "King Of The Hill" for translation. But as I can see, you only accept .po (.pot) files. So it there a way to quickly assemble .po files from these kind of INI-type files? As it's not a known language, tools like PoEdit don't help too much. Maybe there's a way to make a rule list of some kind? Or maybe the usual INI-like file can be accepted? Or should I create the .po files by hand? Something like this: http://pastebin.com/m31c22174 ?

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Jeroen T. Vermeulen (jtv) said : 		#1

Unfortunately we don't have much time to add support for new formats! It shouldn't be too hard to write a converter in a scripting language such as Python though, and perhaps add build rules to regenerate templates and/or reproduce translation INI files.

The sample gettext file you give looks fine, apart from missing a header. The msgctxt approach you take here is particularly nice, since that way you neatly keep the English string as the msgid (which is something we require for gettext files).

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