...
</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 exact location(s) where the message is used
+ comments indicate the exact locations where the message is used
in the source. The translator need not look at the program
source, but can if there is doubt about the correct
translation. The #, comments contain flags that describe the