bench compile-po-to-mo
Usage
bench compile-po-to-mo [OPTIONS]Prerequisites
Existing PO files in your app's
locale
directory, holding translations for at least one language.
Description
The PO files hold translations in human-readable format. Before they can be used by the application, translations need to be compiled to binary files (ending with MO). The binary file is stored in the
sites/assets/locale
folder of your bench.
For efficiency, this skips compilation if there are existing MO files which are newer than the PO files.
This command is automatically executed along with
bench build
and
bench update
. You can run it explicitly in your development environment, when you just added some translations and want to see the result in the UI.
Options
-
--appThis parameter let's you specify an app, in case you want to update the PO files for one app only. Default: all apps. -
--localeThis parameter let's you specify a locale, in case you want to update the PO file for one locale only. Default: all locales. -
--forceForce re-compilation, even if the PO files didn't change.
Examples
Compile ERPNext's german translations.
bench compile-po-to-mo --app erpnext --locale de
This reads translations from
apps/erpnext/erpnext/locale/de.po
and compiles them to binary. The result is saved to
sites/assets/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/erpnext.mo
.