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13.2 The Programmer's View

For the programmer, the general procedure is the same as for the C language. The Emacs PO mode supports other languages, and the GNU xgettext string extractor recognizes other languages based on the file extension or a command-line option. In some languages, setlocale is not needed because it is already performed by the underlying language runtime.