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17 Other Data Formats ¶

While the GNU gettext tools deal mainly with POT and PO files, they can also manipulate a couple of other data formats.

For support for many document formats, such as plain text, MarkDown, manual pages, XML, DocBook, and others, you can use the po4a tools (https://www.po4a.org).

For LibreOffice document formats, such as .odt files, there are no PO file based workflows. Instead, you can use

• Lokalize (https://apps.kde.org/lokalize/) with the menu actions Project > Create OpenDocument translation project and File > Merge translation into OpenDocument, or
• OmegaT (Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmegaT, home page: https://omegat.org/, code: https://github.com/omegat-org/omegat).

With these tools, a translator can translate LibreOffice document directly, without going through the workflow with POT and PO files. (Internally, they use XLIFF or TMX files for storage of the translations.) Alternatively, you can have a workflow with an XLIFF file instead of a PO file, through the Translate Toolkit https://toolkit.translatehouse.org/ (see its documentation).

• Internationalizable Data Formats
• Localized Data Formats