[sane-devel] translation question

[Major A]

As if I didn't have enough work already... now I came up with the idea
of creating a new translation for the SANE backends. I read the README
in the po directory and found a .po file for each language. Now a few
questions:

- Are the comments in the .po file that tell where a string is used
  (file, line) automatically generated, and if yes, how? If no, are
  they really necessary? (I would hate to have to update the file
  every time a backend changes.)

- What happens if a string isn't found in a language? Does gettext
  just use the original version hardcoded into the backend?

Thanks,

  Andras

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Major Andras
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