msgimport

This tool makes it possible to create a po file from an ascii tabulated text file. It does not support multiline msgstr values. In order to use it, it must conform to these rules:

• Be an utf-8 encoded text file

• It may not contain any header lines etc.

• It must contain exactly two columns, separated by a tabulator (ascii 9), where the first column contains the msgid, and the second column contains the msgstr.

If you have something in tabular form that you want to convert to a po file, do it like this:

• Load the tabulated data into a spreadsheet. If you don't have a spreadsheet on your computer, get it at openoffice.org.

• Delete all columns except the two that contain msgid and msgstr. Make sure the first column is msgstr.

• Delete all rows that do not contains data to be converted.

• Save the file as a text-file, tabulator separated with no text delimiters.

• Load the text file into an utf-8 capable text editor like Unired.

• Save the text file as an utf-8 text file with "no BOM".

• Run

  msgimport textfile.txt -o output.po

  and you got a valid .po file.