Poedit

Poedit needs to be installed manually; a simple sudo apt-get install poedit will do it. Run Poedit and you will be prompted to enter a few details that will be useful as you work with the tool—your user name, email ID, etc. If you are already using Ubuntu with your locale, you can get the benefit of generating the translation memory from your current set-up—select the 'Translation Memory' tab in Preferences and add your language; then select Generate Database. A screen ()igure 4) with suggested paths of localisation catalogues will be shown. If you continue, all .mo files in those directories will be read, and a translation memory database will be created.

Poedit has three panes: the top one shows the messages catalogue (both the source language message in English, and the target language message, if already translated),