The .po files are the translation files. They are  generated by a static
analysis tool but are completed by a human translator. The cool part is
that you can re-run the tool when you add a new translatable string and it
will update the .po files without overwriting any existing work done by the
translators.

On Friday, August 2, 2013, Rick Mohr wrote:

> In opentreemap/treemap/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/django.po:
>
> > @@ -0,0 +1,298 @@
> > +# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
>
> This looks like an auto-generated file. Should we really be checking it in?
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