Hello everyone, I would like to announce a new command line tool that can convert between the i18n file formats *.mo (used by gettext) and the custom *.lang file format (used by JOSM). It is named quite unimaginatively `langconv` (if you know some really catchy name for this, let me know 😉).
`langconv` is part of the `gradle-josm-plugin`, both are released together and share the same version number (they are basically two overlapping parts of one project). Basically the classes at the heart of `langconv` already convert *.mo files to *.lang files for a while now as part of the `gradle-josm-plugin`. What's new is that this is now packaged as a command line tool into a small standalone runnable *.jar file and it can convert both directions (*.mo to *.lang, *.lang to *.mo). `langconv` also displays statistics on how many strings are translated into each of the languages in a directory. The *.jar file containing `langconv` can be downloaded from [1]. When running it without any arguments, usage instructions are shown. The perl scripts at [2] can do a similar thing (convert from *.po files to *.lang files), but I hope that this tool can especially help when you have *.lang files and you want to either analyze their content (how many and which strings are in it) or convert them to other formats. Also the classes should be easier used from Java programs, just include `langconv` as a library to read or write *.mo files and *.lang files. The source code can be found in the `langconv` and `i18n` subdirectories of [3], the classes are accompanied by unit tests (~80% coverage) and here's the documentation: [4]. This might hopefully be of some use for some of you, so I hope you can forgive me this shameless promo for this project 😉. Feel free to reach out for any feedback about `langconv`, either via mail or in the issue tracker ([5] or [6]). With my best wishes for 2019, see you, Florian [1]: https://floscher.gitlab.io/gradle-josm-plugin/maven/org/openstreetmap/josm/langconv/0.6.0/langconv-0.6.0.jar [2]: https://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/editors/josm/i18n/ [3]: https://gitlab.com/floscher/gradle-josm-plugin [4]: https://floscher.gitlab.io/gradle-josm-plugin/kdoc/latest/gradle-josm-plugin/org.openstreetmap.josm.gradle.plugin.i18n.io/ [5]: https://gitlab.com/floscher/gradle-josm-plugin/issues/new [6]: incoming+floscher/gradle-josm-plu...@incoming.gitlab.com (email to this address creates an issue, hidden by default until I make it public)
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