...

</programlisting>

The msgid's are extracted from the program source. (They need not

The msgid lines are extracted from the program source. (They need not

be, but this is the most common way.) The msgstr lines are

initially empty and are filled in with useful strings by the

translator. The strings can contain C-style escape characters and

The #. style comments are extracted from the source file where the

message is used. Possibly the programmer has inserted information

for the translator, such as about expected alignment. The #:

comment indicates the exactlocation(s) where the message is used

comments indicate the exactlocations where the message is used

in the source. The translator need not look at the program

source, but he can if there is doubt about the correct

translation. The #, comments contain flags that describe the