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 5 Making the PO Template File
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    After preparing the sources, the programmer creates a PO template
 file.  This section explains how to use ‘xgettext’ for this purpose.
 
    ‘xgettext’ creates a file named ‘DOMAINNAME.po’.  You should then
 rename it to ‘DOMAINNAME.pot’.  (Why doesn’t ‘xgettext’ create it under
 the name ‘DOMAINNAME.pot’ right away?  The answer is: for historical
 reasons.  When ‘xgettext’ was specified, the distinction between a PO
 file and PO file template was fuzzy, and the suffix ‘.pot’ wasn’t in use
 at that time.)
 

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