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+### Translating Terminator into your language
+
+Localized strings are available in po/<locale>.po.  These files are compiled
+into .mo files by running `python setup.py build`
+
+If you've added a new localized string to the source code, it needs to be
+extracted to `po/terminator.pot` by running `python setup.py extract_messages`
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-#!/bin/sh
-cd ..
-python setup.py extract_messages
-cd po