i18ndude: "the swiss army knife for translators"

1. Easy_install i18ndude (probably as root or with sudo):

 easy_install i18ndude

2. Go to the locales directory of your product and (re-)generate POT file:

 i18ndude rebuild-pot --pot ${PRODUCT}.pot --create ${PRODUCT} ../

3. Synchronize the german PO file with the POT:

 i18ndude sync --pot ${PRODUCT}.pot de/LC_MESSAGES/${PRODUCT}.po

Or you can just use the following shell script to make your life easier (sh sync.sh). Replace "${DOMAIN}" with your domain and the language code with the ones you need.

#!/bin/sh  

# List of languages  
LANGUAGES="de fr"  
DOMAIN="${DOMAIN}"  
EXTRA=""  

# Create locales folder structure for languages  
for lang in $LANGUAGES; do  
    install -d $lang/LC_MESSAGES  
done  

echo "Extracting pot file"  
i18ndude rebuild-pot --pot $DOMAIN.pot --create $DOMAIN $EXTRA ../  

# Compile po files  
for lang in $(find . -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -type d); do  

    if test -d $lang/LC_MESSAGES; then  

        PO=$lang/LC_MESSAGES/$DOMAIN.po  

        # Create po file if not exists  
        touch $PO   

        # Sync po file  
        echo "Syncing $PO"  
        i18ndude sync --pot $DOMAIN.pot $PO  
    fi  
done