---
name: "kbabel"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "kbabel"
version: "4:3.5.9-2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/kbabel"
---

# kbabel(1)

a PO-file editor for KDE

## NAME

kbabel - a PO-file editor for KDE

## SYNOPSIS

**kbabel** \[ *generic-options* \] \[ **--gotomsgid** *msgid* \] \[ **--nosplash** \] \[ **--project** *config-file* \] \[ *file* \]

## DESCRIPTION

**KBabel** is part of a suite of programs for editing gettext message files (PO-files).  It is designed to help you translate fast and consistently.

This suite includes KBabel, CatalogManager and KBabelDict.  KBabel (this program) is an advanced and easy to use PO-file editor with full navigational and editing capabilities, syntax checking and statistics.  CatalogManager is a multi functional catalog manager which allows you to keep track of many PO-files at once.  KBabelDict is a dictionary to assist with searching for common translations.

This utility is part of the KDE Software Development Kit.

## OPTIONS

Below are the kbabel-specific options. For a full summary of options, run *kbabel --help*.

- **--gotomsgid** *msgid*

  Go to the entry with the given message ID.

- **--nosplash**

  Disable splashscreen at startup.

- **--project** *config-file*

  Load the configuration from the given file.

## SEE ALSO

[**catalogmanager**(1)](/catalogmanager/1.md), [**kbabeldict**(1)](/kbabeldict/1.md).

Full user documentation is available through the KDE Help Centre. You can also enter the URL *help:/kbabel/* directly into konqueror or you can run \`*khelpcenter help:/kbabel/*' from the command-line.

If the KDE Help Centre is not installed then you can install the package *kdesdk-doc-html* and read this documentation in HTML format from */usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kbabel/*.

## AUTHOR

KBabel was written by Matthias Kiefer \<kiefer@kde.org\>, Wolfram Diestel \<wolfram@steloj.de\>, Andrea Rizzi \<rizzi@kde.org\>, Stanislav Visnovsky \<visnovsky@kde.org\>, Marco Wegner \<dubbleu@web.de\>, Asgeir Frimannsson \<asgeirf@redhat.com\>, Dwayne Bailey \<dwayne@translate.org.za\>, Bram Schoenmakers \<bramschoenmakers@kde.nl\> and others.\
 This manual page was prepared by Ben Burton \<bab@debian.org\> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).