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# How to translate
-In order to translate this program, you need the gettext package installed.
-Go into the po folder and run «msginit».
-This should produce a «LL.po» file, where «LL» is the configured language your system is running.
-Use a po file editor, such as Poedit or Lokalize, and translate the strings.
+In order to translate this program, you need the gettext package installed.
+If you have a github account, fork this repository.
+Go into the po folder locally and run 'msginit'.
+This should produce a 'LL.po' file, where 'LL' is the configured language your system is running.
+Use a po file editor, such as Poedit or Lokalize, and translate the 'msgid' strings on the 'msgstr' lines inside the quotes.
+You can then create a 'pull request' following github instructions.
+
+To make corrections to an existing LL.po file, you can open the file with a po editor like poedit, make the change and save it.
+Again a pull request may be submitted.