Msghack can be used to alter gettext .po files in ways no sane mind would think about. It is a reimplementation of the original msghack in Python. WWW: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gettext/blob/master/f/msghack.py WWW: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gettext/blob/master/f/msghack.1