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+# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.
+# Copyright (C) YEAR THE PACKAGE'S COPYRIGHT HOLDER
+# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package.
+# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR.
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n"
+"Report-Msgid-Bugs-To: \n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2011-12-04 04:59-0600\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2011-12-10 20:29-0300\n"
+"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n"
+"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n"
+"Language: it\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n != 1)\n"
+
+#, python-format
+msgid "Completed 50%% of all the tasks"
+msgstr "IT translation of Completed 50%% of all the tasks"
+
+#, python-format
+msgid "Looks like a str fmt spec %%s but shouldn't be interpreted as such"
+msgstr "Translation of the above string"
+
+#, python-format
+msgid "Looks like a str fmt spec %% o but shouldn't be interpreted as such"
+msgstr "IT translation contains %% for the above string"