Preferences and Catalog Settings

Preferences Dialog

(Available through File/Preferences in the menu.)

You can set various options that affect poEdit globally and are not related to opened catalog in Preferences. There are three tabs in the dialog box, one for each setting group.

Catalog Settings

(Available through Catalog/Settings in the menu.)

This dialog lets you edit catalog specific settings. "Project info" page contains information from catalog's header and the only really important information here is the charset.

"Paths" and "Keywords" pages are meaningful only if you are going to use the catalog update feature. "Paths" page lets you specify in what directories should parsers look for source file. Note that the paths in list box are relative to the base path, so if you set basepath to ../../poEdit and add these two paths into the list box:

src
include
it will recursively search for source files in following directories:
../../poEdit/src
../../poEdit/include
The base path is relative to the directory where .po catalog file resists.

"Keywords" let you specify additional keywords understood by the parser. See GNU gettext documentation section of the manual for the meaning of keywords. By default, xgettext parser understands _, gettext and gettext_noop keywords. You may leave this page empty.

Note that specifying language or editing anything at "Paths" or "Keywords" panels will cause poEdit to save .po.poedit file.