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+By default, intltool/gettext will generate the .po file with the
+entries sorted completely alphabetically. This is not very useful for
+po-locations, so we've provided a script to generate .po files in a
+better order. Do:
+
+ ./regen.sh en_US.po
+
+(substituting "en_US" of course) to regenerate your .po file with the
+entries sorted as follows:
+
+ * Top-level regions (continents, etc), sorted alphabetically
+
+ * Countries, sorted alphabetically
+
+ * Timezone names, not really especially sorted
+
+ * State/Province names, sorted by country, then alphabetically
+ within each country
+
+ * City names, sorted by country, then alphabetically within
+ each country
+
+All of the region and country names are immediately visible when
+adding a new location in the mateweather-applet, and all of the country
+and timezone names are immediately visible when setting the timezone
+of a location in the clock applet. Thus, every translation will likely
+want to have all of those strings translated.
+
+The state/province and city names are more likely to only be seen by
+people living in those states/cities, and so are less critical to have
+100% translation of; they are sorted by country to make it easy to
+translate the city names in countries where your language is spoken
+first, and worry about the city names in other countries later.
+
+
+If you don't want to use this script, you don't have to, but you will
+need to use intltool 0.40.3 or later to rebuild your .po files from
+now on, because earlier versions don't have msgctxt support.
+
+
+Do note there is no need for a LINGUAS file in this directory, and the
+po/LINGUAS file shouldn't be modified for changes in this directory.