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+# Translations template for TestProject.
+# Copyright (C) 2007 FooBar, Inc.
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the TestProject
+# project.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2007.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: TestProject 0.1\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: bugs.address@email.tld\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2007-04-01 15:30+0200\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Generated-By: Babel 0.1\n"
+
+#. This will be a translator coment,
+#. that will include several lines
+#: project/file1.py:8
+msgid "bar"
+msgstr ""
+
+#: project/file2.py:9
+msgid "foobar"
+msgid_plural "foobars"
+msgstr[0] ""
+msgstr[1] ""
+