How to merge two .po files?

Question

I have 2 problems to merge 2 .po files.

1. I have 1 .po file(trans.po) for my applications localization, and another one (transNew.po) I produced recently. I need to merge them. But I when I run the following command, I will always get the same content as transNew.pot, there is no old translations at all.

   msgmerge --previous trans.po transNew.pot -o transfinal.po

2. I manually added some translation string using textedit to trans.po before, and I do not want to lose them, even above command can success, I will lose those string too. I can not find any option can solve it.

Jasminejason

Does this answer your question? Is it possible to combine two .po translation files together? – Interdenominational