As a #RDataTable translator and, more importantly, as a former #GNOME translator, I'm happy with the 1.0 release of gettext, an incredibly good internationalization and localization toolkit. If your software project is not using gettext yet, do consider changing that.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2026-01/msg00007.html
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This thing here is something the #GNOME project always did; I'm glad gettext is helping making it default behavior:
"In a po/ directory, the PO files are now exactly those that the translators submitted or committed in version control, or a translation project's daemon committed on behalf of the translators. They are no longer regularly updated with respect to the POT file in the same directory."
Leonardo Fontenelle