ORIGINAL SOURCE: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/i18n/tools/

This tools was modifiend for Stellarium

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The scripts may be useful for those who want to
organize sustainable translation process of .desktop files translation.

Prerequisites:

Installed python-polib package:

# urpmi python-polib

I desktoppo.py:

Usage:

1. Copy the script into any folder with .desktop files.
2. Run
  python desktoppo.py
3. Script will create .pot's for all .desktop's in the folder. Translate pot's and
   rename the translations into <lang_code>.po
4. Run
  python desktoppo.py
   once more to add your translations to .desktop files.

If you ever need to update something (.desktop's were updated or you found a typo,
etc.) just run
  python desktoppo.py

Limitations:
The script is useful only for Unicode translations.

II transconverter.py is a one-time converter for existing
translations.

Run it as

python transconverter.py

in any folder with desktop files on any level of the filesystem subtree.

  * Both of these files are free software. They come without any warranty, to
  * the extent permitted by applicable law. You can redistribute it
  * and/or modify them under the terms of the Do What The Fuck You Want
  * To Public License, Version 2, as published by Sam Hocevar. See
  * http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING for more details.