Add support for .po file format

[purepennons]

I use react-intl first. But because of the writers requirement, we only can provide untranslated text with a complete statement. And js-lingui support rich-text formatting with component that solved my problem. However, I found another problem in my scenario.

In my scenario, writers only accept the sheet format (.csv, .xls).

And I found a tool translate-toolkit that can convert .po files (filter out translated string) to .csv and convert back to .po files from .xls and .csv formats easily.

Many writers only accept .po, .xls or .csv format. It would be nice to have a tool to convert the lingui format to .csv or .po format.

[tricoder42]

Nothing I’m aware off yet. You can either find converter from JSON to po or we could extend Lingui to handle Po file format. The CLI already works with several formats, so the API and example implementation is there. 9. 3. 2018 v 12:22, Chiahao Lin <notifications@github.com>:

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In my scenario, writers only accept the sheet format (.csv, .xls). And I found a tool translate-toolkit that can convert .po files (filter out translated string) to .csv and convert back to .po files from .xls and .csv formats easily. Many writers only accept .po, .xls or .csv format. It would be good to have a tool to convert the lingui format to .csv or .po format. — You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or mute the thread.

[purepennons]

Got it. Maybe implement a converter from .json to .po is easier for me at the time because of time pressure. If everything works fine, I will try to extend Lingui to handle .po format and send a PR.

Thank you for your reply.

[morloy]

At Ledgy we used i18next-conv to convert between the .json (minimal format) and .po and translate our new website from English to German.
Generating a .po file from js-lingui was also very handy to bootstrap the translation with the Google Translator Toolkit.

[tricoder42]

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