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+# Translations template for oslo.i18n.
+# Copyright (C) 2014 ORGANIZATION
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the oslo.i18n project.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, 2014.
+#
+#, fuzzy
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: oslo.i18n 73d16d8\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: EMAIL@ADDRESS\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2014-06-05 22:20+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 1.3\n"
+
+#: oslo/i18n/gettextutils.py:315
+msgid "Message objects do not support addition."
+msgstr ""
+
+#: oslo/i18n/gettextutils.py:325
+msgid ""
+"Message objects do not support str() because they may contain non-ascii "
+"characters. Please use unicode() or translate() instead."
+msgstr ""
+