Before the strings from your application can be translated, they need to be extracted from the source code.
Wrap messages or string literals in your code with the '_()' macro.
For C, this macro is defined in the glib/gi18n.h header file, which must be included at the top of your application source.
Your wrapped strings should look like this:
_("Press a key to continue")This marks the strings as translatable, and at runtime calls gettext to substitute the translated strings.
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