man pages section 1: User Commands

msgcvt(1)

Name

msgcvt - convert message file to and from HTML

Synopsis

msgcvt [-hmr]

Description

msgcvt reads a gencat(1) format file on the standard input and converts it to HTML on the standard output. The input file must contain the control statement $quote " and use the " character to quote message text. The output is in a form suitable for automatic translation by web sites such as http://babelfish.yahoo.com.

Options

The following options are supported:

–h

–html

Generate HTML from gencat(1) input.

This is the default.

–m

–msg

Generate a gencat(1) message file from (presumably translated) HTML. Wide characters are UTF-8 encoded.

–r

–raw

The message file is raw message text, one message per line, with no quoting or line numbering.

Exit Status

0

Successful completion.

>0

One or more specified jobs does not exist.

Examples

Example 1 Generating a gencat Message Catalog File

The following example generates a gencat(1) message catalog file from an HTML file:

example% cat example.html | msgcvt -m > examplecat

Authors

Glenn Fowler, gsf@research.att.com

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE Availability developer/astdev Interface Stability Volatile

See Also

gencat(1), msgcc(1), msggen(1), attributes(5)