PO Files¶

PO files use the file format of the Gettext tools.

See also

Supported Features¶

Headers
Language header (since gettext version 0.17)
Plural forms and plural form handling
Message context
```
msgctxt "noun"
msgid "View"
msgstr ""
```
Normal comments
```
# this is another comment
```

Automatic comments

#. comment extracted from the source code

Source location comments
```
#: sourcefile.xxx:35
```
Typecomments
```
#, fuzzy
```
Msgidcomments, also known as KDE style comments as they are used by KDE for message disambiguation and comments to translators.

Note

Support for this is being phased out in favor of msgctxt.
```
msgid "_: comment\n"
"translation"
```
Obsolete messages
```
#~ msgid "Blah"
#~ msgstr "Bleeh"
```
Previous msgid
```
#| msgid "previous message"
```
Previous msgctxt
```
#| msgctxt "previous context"
```