Is there a Linux software to spell check .po files?

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I am translating some po-files and I would like to run a spell checker over them. I have Ubuntu 10.10 and use gtranslator. As far as I know, gtranslator can't spellcheck the whole file.

I tried ispell: $ ispell lordsawar-0.2.0-pre4.de.po - this doesn't work, as English and German strings, as well as some programming-relevant comments appear in the .po-file.

Do you know any program running on Ubuntu which can spell check po-files?

It's been 11 years and Gtranslator still can't spell-check a file without you manually clicking on every translation entry. — Dmitry Grigoryev, Jan 08 '22 at 10:37

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 16 '11 at 15:11

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I've just pushed a po file spell checker to github: https://github.com/holygeek/pospelchek

The behavior imitates aspell wherein it shows you the mispelled word and suggests corrections.

Run it like this:

$ pospelchek -l de_DE lordsawar-0.2.0-pre4.de.po

or to get the man page:

$ pospelchek -h

answered Aug 16 '11 at 15:11

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You'll have to install the relevant dictionaries for the languages that you want to spellcheck. These are the same dictionaries that aspell uses. – holygeek Aug 16 '11 at 15:20

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 28 '13 at 11:45

You could try this online tool: poeditor.com, it doesn't have an actual spell check option, but you can have a translator do that for you via the platform as a contributor to your project, or you could try to compare your translation to an automatic one that the program can generate.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '16 at 15:41

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There is spellcheck, an aspell wrapper script written in python that adds basic support for .po files (requires Babel).

answered Jan 24 '16 at 15:41

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 08 '22 at 10:41

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emacs can spell-check PO files in PO-mode.

answered Jan 08 '22 at 10:41

Dmitry Grigoryev

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Is there a Linux software to spell check .po files?

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