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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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* xgettext Invocation         Invoking the `xgettext' Program
 
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