is is best performed
using <SAMP>`msgcat&acute;</SAMP>.  It is then the translators' duty to deal with any
possible conflicts that arose during the merge.

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When a translator takes over the translation job from another translator,
but she uses a different character encoding in her locale, she will
convert the catalog to her character encoding.  This is best done through
the <SAMP>`msgconv&acute;</SAMP> program.

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When a maintainer takes a source file with tagged message