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+Getan Message Translations
+==============================
+
+The message catalogs are managed with the following software:
+
+ - pygettext (usually distributed with Python)
+
+ - GNU gettext (msgmerge and msgfmt)
+
+
+Common tasks:
+
+ - Create/Update getan.pot-File when the sources were edited and
+   messages have been added or changed and after a fresh checkout
+
+     $ make pot
+
+ - When the getan.pot has been changed, run
+
+     $ make merge
+
+   to merge the changes in the pot file with the messages already in the
+   *.po files.
+
+ - When the translations in the po files have been changed, run
+
+     $ make mo
+
+   to generate new .mo files under ../share/locale
+
+ - The make mo command prints statistics about the translations.  To get
+   a less verbose version use this:
+
+     $ make stat