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+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# Author: Runa A. Sandvik, <runa.sandvik@gmail.com>
+# For The Tor Project, Inc.
+#
+# This is Free Software (GPLv3)
+# http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
+#
+# This script will convert translated po files back to xml. Before
+# running the script, checkout the translation directory from
+# https://svn.torproject.org.
+#	
+
+### Start config ###
+
+# Location of the translated files, i.e. the path to the orbot
+# directory in the translation module. Do not add the trailing slash. 
+translated=""
+
+# Location of the orbot directory, i.e. the original English xml file.
+# Do not add the trailing slash.
+xml=""
+
+### End config ###
+
+# Find po files to convert.
+po=`find $translated -type f -name \*.po`
+
+# For every po found, create and/or update the translated manpage.
+for file in $po ; do
+
+	# Get the basename of the file we are dealing with.
+	pofile=`basename $file`
+
+	# Strip the file for its original extension and add .xml.
+	xmlfile="${pofile%.*}.xml"
+
+	# Figure out which language we are dealing with.
+	lang=`dirname $file | sed "s#$translated/##"`
+
+	# The translated document is written if 80% or more of the po
+	# file has been translated. Also, po4a-translate will only write
+	# the translated document if 80% or more has been translated.
+	# However, it will delete the translated txt if less than 80%
+	# has been translated. To avoid having our current, translated
+	# xml files deleted, convert the po to a temp xml first. If this
+	# file was actually written, rename it to xml.
+
+	# Convert translated po to xml.
+	po4a-translate -f xml -m "$xml/values/$xmlfile" -p "$file"  -l "$xml/values-$lang/tmp-$xmlfile" --master-charset utf-8 -L utf-8
+
+	# Check to see if the file was written. If yes, rename it.
+	if [ -e "$xml/values-$lang/tmp-$xmlfile" ]
+	then
+		mv "$xml/values-$lang/tmp-$xmlfile" "$xml/values-$lang/$xmlfile"
+	fi
+done