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Poedit (formerly poEdit) is a shareware and cross-platform gettext catalog (.po file) editor to aid in the process of language localisation. According to WordPress developer Thord Hedengren, Poedit is "one of the most popular programs" for editing portable language files.

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Software.name
Poedit
Software.logo
Net.poedit.Poedit.svg
Software.screenshot
Poedit 1.8.1 en.png
Software.developer
Václav Slavík
Software.programming language
C++
Software.operating system
Windows, macOS, Unix-like
Software.platform
Cross-platform
Software.language
Multilingual
Software.genre
Computer-assisted translation
Software.license
Basic version: MIT LicensePro version: Shareware - Windows, macOS

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This program is a simple translation editor for PO and XLIFF files. It also serves as a GUI frontend to more GNU gettext utilities (win32 version is part of the distribution) and catalogs editor/source code parser. It helps with translating applications into another language. For details on principles of the solution used, see GNU gettext documentation. Official binaries for Linux are available as a Snap at Most Linux distributions also include native Poedit packages. cld2 (better language autodetection and non-English source languages) C++REST SDK = 2.5 (Crowdin integration) You must have the dependencies installed in a location where configure will find them, e.g. by setting CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS appropriately. There are some additional dependencies on tools not included with macOS. They can be installed with Homebrew and macos/Brewfile : If you are on Windows or OSX, you'll need all the dependencies too. After cloning the repository, run the following command: When building for Unix/Linux, if you get the sources directly from the Git repository, some generated files are not present. You have to run the ./bootstrap script to create them. After that, continue according to the instructions above. AsciiDoc, xsltproc and xmlto to generate the manual page gettext tools to create .mo files Poedit is released under the MIT license and you're free to do whatever you want with it and its source code (well, almost :-) -- see the license text). Windows and macOS versions contain GNU gettext binaries. They are distributed under the GNU General Public License and their source code is available from If you have difficulties getting them from there, email me for a copy of the sources.

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Official website
poedit.net
Image
Poedit 1.8.1 en.png
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software version identifier
3.9
publication date
2001-05-00
Commons category
Poedit
source code repository URL
github.com/vslavik/poedit
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Poedit (formerly poEdit) is a shareware and cross-platform gettext catalog (.po file) editor to aid in the process of language localisation. According to WordPress developer Thord Hedengren, Poedit is "one of the most popular programs" for editing portable language files.

It is written in C++ and depends on some subclasses from the wxWidgets, but utilizes graphical control elements from the GTK library.

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