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Once your @command{awk} program is working, and all the strings have been marked and you've set (and perhaps bound) the text domain, it is time to produce translations. First, use the @option{--gen-po} command-line option to create the initial `.po' file:
$ gawk --gen-po -f guide.awk > guide.po
When run with @option{--gen-po}, @command{gawk} does not execute your
program. Instead, it parses it as usual and prints all marked strings
to standard output in the format of a GNU gettext Portable Object
file. Also included in the output are any constant strings that
appear as the first argument to dcgettext.(43) utility that comes with GNU gettext will be
taught to automatically run `gawk --gen-po' for `.awk' files,
freeing the translator from having to do it manually.}
See section A Simple Internationalization Example,
for the full list of steps to go through to create and test
translations for @command{guide}.
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