Looking for people's experience with po files.

[Steven W. Orr]

I understand the purpose of po files but I've never used it. I'm currently 
working on a bash script that's ~10k lines long. It needs to support 
multiple languages and right now we have a set of .lang files that just 
define duplicate variables. e.g.

Filename		Content
lang/English		symbol1=Hello
lang/German		symbol1='Guten Tag'

I'm thinking there's gotta be something better. Are po files inappropriate 
for this? Anyone?

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