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+# American English messages for GNU diffutils
+# Copyright © 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>, 2002
+#
+msgid ""
+msgstr ""
+"Project-Id-Version: GNU diffutils 2.8.3\n"
+"POT-Creation-Date: 2002-06-16 23:44-0700\n"
+"PO-Revision-Date: 2002-06-17 00:01-0700\n"
+"Last-Translator: Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com>\n"
+"Language-Team: English <en@translate.freefriends.org>\n"
+"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
+"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1\n"
+"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
+
+# POSIX requires the word "illegal" in the POSIX locale, but the error
+# is not really against the law.  This is not the POSIX locale, so fix
+# the wording.
+#: lib/getopt.c:800
+#, c-format
+msgid "%s: illegal option -- %c\n"
+msgstr "%s: unrecognised option `-%c'\n"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: Please translate "(C)" to the C-in-a-circle symbol
+#. (U+00A9, COPYRIGHT SIGN) if possible, as this has some minor
+#. technical advantages in international copyright law.  If the
+#. copyright symbol is not available, please leave it as "(C)".
+#: lib/version-etc.c:50
+msgid "(C)"
+msgstr "©"
+
+#. TRANSLATORS: Please translate the second "o" in "Torbjorn Granlund"
+#. to an o-with-umlaut (U+00F6, LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS)
+#. if possible.
+#: src/cmp.c:47
+msgid "Written by Torbjorn Granlund and David MacKenzie."
+msgstr "Written by Torbjörn Granlund and David MacKenzie."