Translating these Applications
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You will need the gettext utilities to work with the translation files.
Ensure you have the following utilities available:

  xgettext
  msgfmt

First, update the translation template ("pot") file

  make pot

This will create fresh template files in "po/", "shp2pgsql.pot" and 
"pgsql2shp.pot"

Second, copy a template to a translation file, using the filename 
pattern shp2pgsql_LANG.po. For example, for a French translation:

  cp shp2pgsql.pot shp2pgsql_fr.po
  cp pgsql2shp.pot pgsql2shp_fr.po

Finally, prepare your translations. There is header information in the 
translation file to identify yourself as the translator -- fill it in.

Important, set the CHARSET value in the header to the text character set 
you are using for your text file. We'd prefer you use UTF-8, if you can.

When your translation file is complete, commit your changes, or 
mail it to the postgis-devel list, and we'll commit it for you.