163            o      All duplicate msgids are ignored.
 164 
 165 
 166        The msgid directive specifies the value of a message identifier
 167        associated with the directive that follows it. The msgid_plural
 168        directive specifies the plural form message specified to the plural
 169        message handling functions ngettext(), dngettext(), or dcngettext().
 170        The message_identifier string identifies a target string to be used at
 171        retrieval time. Each statement containing a msgid directive must be
 172        followed by a statement containing a msgstr directive or msgstr[n]
 173        directives.
 174 
 175 
 176        The msgstr directive specifies the target string associated with the
 177        message_identifier string declared in the immediately preceding msgid
 178        directive.
 179 
 180 
 181        The directive msgstr[n] (where n = 0, 1, 2, ...) specifies the target
 182        string to be used with plural form handling functions ngettext(),
 183        dngettext(), and dcngetttext().
 184 
 185 
 186        Message strings can contain the escape sequences \n for newline, \t for
 187        tab, \v for vertical tab, \b for backspace, \r for carriage return, \f
 188        for formfeed, \ for backslash, \" for double quote, \a for alarm, \ddd
 189        for octal bit pattern, and \xDD for hexadecimal bit pattern.
 190 
 191 
 192        Comments for a GNU-compatible message file should be in one of the
 193        following formats (the msgfmt utility will ignore these comments when
 194        processing Solaris message files):
 195 
 196          # translator-comments
 197          #. automatic-comments
 198          #: reference..
 199          #, flag
 200 
 201 
 202 
 203 

 163            o      All duplicate msgids are ignored.
 164 
 165 
 166        The msgid directive specifies the value of a message identifier
 167        associated with the directive that follows it. The msgid_plural
 168        directive specifies the plural form message specified to the plural
 169        message handling functions ngettext(), dngettext(), or dcngettext().
 170        The message_identifier string identifies a target string to be used at
 171        retrieval time. Each statement containing a msgid directive must be
 172        followed by a statement containing a msgstr directive or msgstr[n]
 173        directives.
 174 
 175 
 176        The msgstr directive specifies the target string associated with the
 177        message_identifier string declared in the immediately preceding msgid
 178        directive.
 179 
 180 
 181        The directive msgstr[n] (where n = 0, 1, 2, ...) specifies the target
 182        string to be used with plural form handling functions ngettext(),
 183        dngettext(), and dcngettext().
 184 
 185 
 186        Message strings can contain the escape sequences \n for newline, \t for
 187        tab, \v for vertical tab, \b for backspace, \r for carriage return, \f
 188        for formfeed, \ for backslash, \" for double quote, \a for alarm, \ddd
 189        for octal bit pattern, and \xDD for hexadecimal bit pattern.
 190 
 191 
 192        Comments for a GNU-compatible message file should be in one of the
 193        following formats (the msgfmt utility will ignore these comments when
 194        processing Solaris message files):
 195 
 196          # translator-comments
 197          #. automatic-comments
 198          #: reference..
 199          #, flag
 200 
 201 
 202 
 203