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 9.4.1 Extracting Marked Strings
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 Once your `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 `--gen-po' command-line option
 to create the initial `.po' file:
 
      $ gawk --gen-po -f guide.awk > guide.po
 
    When run with `--gen-po', `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' or as the first and second argument to
 `dcngettext'.(1)  I18N Example, for the full list of steps to go
 through to create and test translations for `guide'.
 
    ---------- Footnotes ----------
 
    (1) Starting with `gettext' version 0.11.5, the `xgettext' utility
 that comes with GNU `gettext' can handle `.awk' files.
 

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