modo is a collection of zsh scripts dealing with day-to-day tasks of GNU Gettext (.po) and Qt (.ts) localization files.

• modo: compile and install a GNU Gettext-format .po file (as .mo)
• qmdo: compile and install a Qt-format .ts file (as .qm)
• l10nrestore: restore a previous version of a .mo or .qm file
• podo: reverse-compile a .mo file as .po to allow editing

Usage is basically modo pofile....

Unless given in the command line with -d, --destination switch or in a config file name modo.def (whose contents are the destination directory), modo tries to locate an older version of the destination file. If not found and no -f, --force switch is given, the script gives up. With -f, --force, the default destination directory is used (/usr/share/locale/LANGCODE/LC_MESSAGES).

NOTE: LANGCODE is taken from $LANG without the country code and encoding parts (i.e., LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8 yields “fi”).

Usage is qmdo tsfile... and the target directory is OBLIGATORILY set in a qmdo.def file (consisting solely of a target directory name).

As modo and qmdo create numbered backups, l10nrestore allows reverting to an older file. This is the only script having an actual usage screen (-h or --help).

Options: -h, --help to show usage; -n, --dry-run to show what would happen without actually doing anything; -sN, --steps=N to set the number of restoration steps taken; and -v, --verbose for more verbose output.

Reverse-compile an .mo file into a .po file. As the reverse-compiled files lack comments etc., they are not really suitable to work with, but they can provide some information to the translator (like, what is the version of the .mo file used in the current distribution).