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<title>Poedit and Gettext Basics</title>
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<h1>Poedit and Gettext Basics</h1>
<h3>gettext</h3>
This introduction is meant for novice users who knows nothing about
GNU gettext. For more details, see <i>GNU gettext
documentation</i> section of the manual
(note that it refers to Emacs text editor in many
places so parts of it do not apply to Poedit).
The following summary explains terminology:
<dl>
<dt><b>Catalogs</b></dt>
<dd>
Translations are stored in catalogs (files with .po extension).
A catalog contains header (you can fill header information
in <a href="settings.html#catalog">settings dialog</a>)
and translations. Translations consists of two strings:
original text (usually in English) and matching translation.
</dd>
<dt><b>.mo files</b></dt>
<dd>
.mo file is compiled version of text-based .po catalog.
Poedit creates it by default (you can disable this in
<a href="settings.html#prefs">preferences dialog</a>).
</dd>
<dt><b>References</b></dt>
<dd>
Reference is a place in source code where original string
appears. Sometimes it is neccessary to consult the meaning
of original text with the source file.
</dd>
<dt><b>Fuzzy translation</b></dt>
<dd>
Fuzzy translation is incomplete, inaccurate translation.
There are two ways how a translation may become fuzzy:
either you mark it as such (for example because you are
unsure about its correctness) or the gettext utility
<tt>msgmerge</tt> marks it when
<a href="update.html">updating the catalog</a>.
</dd>
</dl>
<h3>Poedit</h3>
Poedit serves as a front-end to gettext. It allows you to edit
catalog files in comfortable way.
<p>
In addition to .po file, Poedit saves .po.poedit file with additional
information needed for updating. This file is not created if you did
not edit language, keywords or paths in
<a href="settings.html#catalog">catalog settings dialog</a>).
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