Poedit

Poedit is an open source, free and multiplatform graphical software that has been designed from the ground up to allow users to easily and quickly edit .po files, also known as gettext catalogs. In other words, this application aims to be a graphical editor for translations generated with the well known gettext program.

Features at a glance

Key features include support for plural forms, support for Unicode encoding, displays data in a very compact way, highlighting of whitespaces, automatic compilation of .mo files, automatic update of headers, references browser, integration with the GNOME and KDE desktop environments, UTF-8 support, comments editing, catalogs manager, and spell checking.

Installing Poedit

On GNU/Linux, you have two choices when it comes to installing the Poedit application. If you are a hardcore user and you want to optimize it for your distribution and hardware architecture, we strongly recommend you to use the source tarball, which can be downloaded from Softoware, free of charge.

Please note that installing from sources, requires you to have various libraries installed on your system, as well as a compiler. On the other hand, beginners should attempt installing the Poedit application from the default software repositories of their GNU/Linux distributions, using the pre-built binary packages.

Under the hood and supported operating systems

The software is written in the C++ programming language and it uses the cross-plaform wxWidgets GUI toolkit for its graphical user interface. It supports all GNU/Linux distributions, as well as the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems.

Availability and supported platforms

Currently, the application is available for download only as a universal sources archive on GNU/Linux systems and it has been successfully tested with both 32-bit and 64-bit instruction set architectures. Pre-built binary packages for might be available on third-party software repositories of various distributions of Linux

What is new in this release:

• Fixed bug in handling POTs with plural forms introduced in 1.8.3.

What is new in version 1.8.2:

• Text editor now ensures that trailing newlines are present only if they also exist in the source text.
• Fixed HTML export error on Windows.
• Automatically fix some bad paths settings in PO files.
• Improved source language detection.
• Use the user's default browser for Crowdin authentication on all platforms (wxWebView no longer required as a dependency when building on Linux).
• Fixed occurrences of > and < in online suggestions.
• Fixed incorrect timezone of PO-Revision-Date in some cases.

What is new in version 1.7.4:

• [OS X] Fix stray BOM marks appearing on suggestions in some cases.
• [OS X] Fix Brazilian Portuguese localization not being used.
• [OS X] Fix sandbox permission window with unusual source paths settings.
• [GTK+] Fix broken Edit->Copy/Cut/Paste.
• [Windows] HiDPI support.
• Size of the bottom editing part is now remembered correctly again.
• Other small bugfixes.

What is new in version 1.7.3:

• It is now possible to disable unwanted extractors in preferences.
• Source paths in catalog properties can now include individual files.
• Exclusion paths in catalog properties can now use wildcards (e.g. *.js, now default for WordPress).
• "Consult TM when updating from sources" now includes only "good" matches (with at least 75% score).
• Fixed loosing of the editing position when saving a file.
• Fixed Preferences layout in Japanese and Chinese translations.
• Updated gettext tools to 0.19.4.
• (Windows) Fixed custom font setting after using a suggestion or copying from source text.

What is new in version 1.7.1:

• Fixes menu shortcuts bug in the Polish localization.

What is new in version 1.6.11:

• Fix MO compilation for extensionless PO files.
• Translations updates and fixes.

What is new in version 1.6.10:

• multiple fixes to parsing of the Language header
• fix handling of broken POTs with duplicate headers
• improved robustness of the Lucene TM database
• misc small fixes
• translations updates and fixes

What is new in version 1.4.4:

• This is probably the last bugfixes release in 1.4 series.

What is new in version 1.4.3:

• Several bugs (most notably a crash with the Zemberek spell-checker on Ubuntu) were fixed. Support for GNOME's xml2po was added.
• Vietnamese and Uzbek translations were added.

What is new in version 1.4.2:

• The Ctrl+Up/Down/PgUp/PgDn shortcuts were fixed for the case when NumLock is on.

Requirements:

• wxWidgets