grunt-po2mo

Compiles .po files into binary .mo files with msgfmt

This plugin is largely based on Michele Bertoli's grunt-po2mo, with some minor differences:

• uses no third-party dependencies
• supports additional options
• code base is linted with eslint

Prerequisites

You will need msgfmt installed in order for this task to work

macOS

# Homebrew
$ brew install gettext
$ brew link --force gettext

# MacPorts
$ sudo port install gettext

Linux

# Debian
$ sudo apt-get install gettext

# Fedora
$ dnf install gettext-devel

Windows

$ scoop bucket add main
$ scoop install main/gettext

Installation

$ npm install @floatwork/grunt-po2mo --save-dev

Usage

grunt.loadNpmTasks('@floatwork/grunt-po2mo');

grunt.initConfig({
	po2mo: {
		files: {
			src: 'languages/de_AT.po',
			dest: 'languages/de_AT.mo',
		}
	}
});

grunt.registerTask('default', ['po2mo']);

Options

options.alignment

Type: int
Default: 1

Align strings to NUMBER bytes

options.checkAccelerators

Type: string|null
Default: null

Check presence of keyboard accelerators for menu items

options.checkCompatibility

Type: bool
Default: false

Check that GNU msgfmt behaves like X/Open msgfmt

options.checkDomain

Type: bool
Default: false

Check for conflicts between domain directives and the --output-file option

options.checkFormat

Type: bool
Default: false

Check language dependent format strings

options.checkHeader

Type: bool
Default: false

Verify presence and contents of the header entry

options.endianness

Type: string|null
Default: null

Write out 32-bit numbers in the given byte order (big or little, default depends on platform)

options.noHash

Type: bool
Default: false

Binary file will not include the hash table

options.useFuzzy

Type: bool
Default: false.

Use fuzzy entries in output

options.deleteSrc

Type: bool
Default: false

Will delete the source .po file after conversion

Authors

• MicheleBertoli
• floatwork_

License

This work is licensed under The MIT License