wxl-po-tools

Introduction

This set of tools is intended to help using translation tools and platforms (like transifex for exemple) to translate your wxl translation files from wix. Wix is a windows framework to build MSI installation files that can produce localized installers using XML files containing the localized strings (called wxl files). Unfortunately, a lot (if not most) of the translation platforms can't work with these files.

wxl-po-tools contains 3 small utilities that help "translate" your wxl files into standard GNU's gettext po files that can be used on any translation tool or platform and to convert back the translated po file to a wxl file. You can also convert a wxl source file and a wxl translated file into a single translated po file.

Requirements

These tools are written in python and use xml.dom.minidom and polib

xml.dom.minidom comes from the standard python distribution.

polib can be installed with pip install polib

wxl2pot.py

Usage: wxl2pot.py [OPTION]... WXL_SOURCE_FILE POT_DEST_FILE

Transform the file WXL_SOURCE_FILE in wxl format into a pot file POT_DEST_FILE

Example: wxl2pot.py -l LangId en-us.wxl en-us.pot

Options:

• -h, --help print this help message and exit
• -V, --version print version information and exit
• -f, --force don't ask before overwriting destination file
• -l, --langid=LANGID ignore string with Id LANGID containing the LCID

transwxl2po.py

Usage: transwxl2pot.py [OPTION]... WXL_SOURCE_FILE WXL_TRANSLATED_FILE PO_DEST_FILE

Transform the file WXL_SOURCE_FILE in wxl format into a po file PO_DEST_FILE containing the translations from WXL_TRANSLATED_FILE

Example: transwxl2pot.py -l LangId en-us.wxl fr-fr.wxl fr-fr.po

Options:

• -h, --help print this help message and exit
• -V, --version print version information and exit
• -f, --force don't ask before overwriting destination file
• -l, --langid=LANGID ignore string with Id LANGID containing the LCID

po2wxl.py

Usage: po2wxl.py [OPTION]... PO_SOURCE_FILE WXL_DEST_FILE

Transform the file PO_SOURCE_FILE in po format into a wxl file WXL_DEST_FILE

Example: po2wxl.py -l LangId en-us.po en-us.wxl

Options:

• -h, --help print this help message and exit
• -V, --version print version information and exit
• -f, --force don't ask before overwriting destination file
• -l, --langid=LANGID automatically determine LCID based on language and add a string with id LANGID containing the LCID
• -L, --LCID=LCID used with -l, use provided LCID instead of trying to guess it
• -C, --codepage=CP use CP as codepage instead of trying to guess it
• -p, --percentlimit=LIMIT do not translate po files which translation percent is below LIMIT. 60% by default

Licence

These tools are licenced under the Gnu General Public Licence Version 3