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#gettext #deepl assisted #i10n of #po files

$ msgget # copy msgid as msgstr to new file

script:
---
#!/usr/bin/bash

read msg

# curl the msg via deepl api | jq --raw the output
---

$msgfilter --keep-header -src.po ./script

# pay attention to encoding in *.po header

et voilà, basic, crude translation of thousands of lines in more than 30 languages

Afterthought: I deal with newlines via sed /\\n// , sometimes via #vim

#translation #i10n #gnu #unix #linux #hobby #bash #m16n