Hi everyone,

I started my PHP application with all text in German, then used gettext to extract all strings and translate them to English.
So, now I have a .po file with all msgids in German and msgstrs in English. I want to switch them, so that my source code contains the English as msgids. There are numerous reasons for this:

1. More translators will know English, so it is only appropriate to serve them up a file with msgids in English. I could always switch the file before I give it out and after I receive it
2. It would help me to write English object & function names and comments if the content text was also English. I'd like to do that, so the project is more open to other Open Source collaborators (more likely to know English than German).

I could do this manually and this is the sort of task where I anticipate it will take me more time to write an automated routine for it (because I'm very bad with shell scripts) than do it by hand. But I also anticipate despising every minute of manual computer labour (feels like a oxymoron, right?) like I always do.

Has someone done this before? I figured this would be a common problem, but couldn't find anything. Many thanks ahead.

Sample Problem:

<title><?=_('Routinen')?></title>

#: /users/ruben/sites/v/routinen.php:43
msgid "Routinen"
msgstr "Routines"