Tech toot!

When building #multilingual #WordPress #plugins, I've always struggled with merging POT file changes into existing PO files non-destructively, without manually adding every new string.

I refuse to use #Poedit because its UI and terminology leaves me as confused as a frog in a spaceship.

Today I discovered #msgmerge (part of the BSD #gettext library, bundled in macOS). Works a treat alongside WP CLI.

> msgmerge -vU dest.po src.pot

Reference:

https://emdplugins.com/questions/how-can-i-merge-new-translation-strings-from-pot-file-to-po-file/