how to generate po file from js file using poedit

javascript localization gettext poedit
Prasanth K C picture Prasanth K C · May 15, 2013 · Viewed 7.6k times · Source

i am using Gettext.js library to localize my contents generated from a JS file. Now the situation is, i have to create and write each and every po files manually. I know we can scan php files for gettext strings using PoEdit. So, is it possible to scan JS files for gettext strings using PoEdit?

Answer

Prasanth K C picture Prasanth K C · May 31, 2013

Achieved this by creating a new parser of python language in PoEdit.

File > Preferences > Parsers > New

Language:

JS

List of extension:

*.js

Parser command:

xgettext --language=Python --force-po -o %o %C %K %F

Item in Keyword List:

-k%k

Item in input files list:

%f

Source code charset:

--from-code=%c

i found this tutorial while searching on this, which helped me to attain the situation Tutorial Here>>

Actually the tutorial is in French and the link is a google translated(to English) one.

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