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Gettext MO — Portuguese (Brazil)

Compiled gettext MO binary for Portuguese (Brazil) — pair with the matching PO for loader tests.

Preview — schema + first 3 rowsmo
fieldvalue
formatgettext MO
localept-BR
messages7
Compiled binary — metadata sample only

Specifications

Locale
pt-BR
Format
gettext MO (compiled)
Messages
7

What is a .mo file?

A MO file (.mo, Machine Object) is the compiled binary form of a gettext PO catalog used at runtime by gettext libraries. It stores msgid/msgstr pairs in a compact hashed table for fast lookup.

How to use this file

Use an example .mo file to test gettext runtime loaders, MO parsers, and PO↔MO conversion tooling.

How to use this file for testing

“Gettext MO — Portuguese (Brazil)” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Internationalization. Parallel text and accented, multi-script content — for testing translation pipelines, Unicode handling, and localization tooling.

Documented properties for this file: 7 messages · gettext MO (compiled). Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.

Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such — expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.

Translation-catalog fixtures carry the same message set across formats, each with its native placeholder syntax. Test your i18n loader, catalog converter, or translation-memory tool, and use the RTL and CJK variants to check bidirectional text and Unicode handling.

Load the catalog with your i18n framework and verify placeholder interpolation and plural handling; the RTL and CJK variants exercise bidirectional text and font fallback.

Code examples

import gettext

with open("app_pt-br.mo", "rb") as f:
    cat = gettext.GNUTranslations(f)
print(cat.gettext("Hello"))   # .mo is the compiled catalog

Generated by generation/localization_wave_c.py. Free for any use, no attribution required — license.