1XGETTEXT(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation XGETTEXT(1)
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6 xgettext.pl - Extract translatable strings from source
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9 xgettext.pl [OPTION] [INPUTFILE]...
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12 This program extracts translatable strings from given input files, or
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15 Please see Locale::Maketext::Extract for a list of supported input file
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37 Specifies that the source programs uses the Gettext style (e.g.
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47 PO file name to be written or incrementally updated; "-" means
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56 Enables GNU gettext interoperability by printing "#, perl-make‐
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60 Locale::Maketext::Extract, Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext,
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64 Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>
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67 Copyright 2002, 2003, 2004 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.
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69 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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72 See <http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>
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76perl v5.8.8 2007-12-22 XGETTEXT(1)