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l10n: README: document "core translation" 

Contributor for a new language must complete translations of a small set
of l10n messages.

Signed-off-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiang Xin <worldhello.net@gmail.com>
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@ -40,6 +40,30 @@ language, so that the l10n coordinator only needs to interact with one
person per language.


Core translation
----------------
The core translation is the smallest set of work that must be completed
for a new language translation. Because there are more than 5000 messages
in the template message file "po/git.pot" that need to be translated,
this is not a piece of cake for the contributor for a new language.

The core template message file which contains a small set of messages
will be generated in "po-core/core.pot" automatically by running a helper
program named "git-po-helper" (described later).

git-po-helper init --core XX.po

After translating the generated "po-core/XX.po", you can merge it to
"po/XX.po" using the following commands:

msgcat po-core/XX.po po/XX.po -s -o /tmp/XX.po
mv /tmp/XX.po po/XX.po
git-po-helper update XX.po

Edit "po/XX.po" by hand to fix "fuzzy" messages, which may have misplaced
translated messages and duplicate messages.


Translation Process Flow
------------------------
The overall data-flow looks like this: