Translating the pot file

Translators enter the translation of each msgid into the corresponding msgstr field and save the result as a file with the same name as the pot file but with the extension .po. There will be one po file for each target language.

• po files should be saved in Unicode utf-8 encoding.
• po files should not have a BOM (Byte Order Mark) at the start of the file.
• msgid and msgstr entries can have multiple lines. Enclose each line in double quotes.

Each translated po file is compiled into a binary format by running the msgfmt program (included with the freely available GNU gettext utilities package), giving the output the same name as the po file but with an extension of .mo.