To Create a PO File

1. Open a terminal window (if necessary).

2. As superuser create a temporary directory.

   # mkdir /export/am_mo_gen

3. Change to the created directory.

   # cd /export/am_mo_gen

4. Create an example.po file.

5. Open the empty example.po file in a text editor.

6. Add the following content to the file:

   domain "example"

   msgid "This is an example how to generate a Machine Object file in UTF-8 encoding"

   msgstr "Cet example démontre comment générer un fichier Machine Object encodé avec UTF-8"

7. Add the charset specification to the bottom of the file, as follows:

   “Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n”

8. Save the changes.