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Converting a mo file back to its original

Like I said in a post a couple of days ago, I’m creating a website for my fathers chessclub. I also said I’d be using a Wordpress installation for it. Because it is in Dutch I use a nl_NL.mo file to make it localised.

However, on the Dutch Wordpress site, you can’t download a .po file, only a .mo file.
So after some searching, I found out you can convert the .mo file back so you can use it with poedit.

First, put the .mo file in the bin directory of poedit (usually C:\Program Files\poEdit\bin\).
Then, to convert .mo files into .po files, open the command prompt and cd (change directory) to the bin directory of your poedit installation (in windows you have to use the command prompt) and use the following command:

msgunfmt nl_NL.mo > nl_NL.po

Voila, that’s it. There now should be a .po file in the bin directory.

December 2, 2007 | Filed Under Wordpress 

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