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I started trying to translate a few of the most used text entries in a C program using gettext, but when digging into this I got a little bit confused about all the different file formats since there seems to be some overlap in functionality? I would like get an overview of the different formats .po .pot .mo .gmo (other formats I have excluded?) and learn What is the normal workflow? What does this file format contain? What tools are typically used? What "opposite" direction conversions are possible (1)? (1) I know that msgunfmt can convert from .mo to .po, but since .mo is the final end format I assume this is not a lossless process. I.e. if I convert from hello1.mo to hello2.po and then convert from hello2.po to hello3.mo, I assume that hello1.mo and hello3.mo will contain identical language strings but that some meta information will be lost along the way, right?
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