Note that to do this (attached) translation, I did those steps:

1. extracted the tarball
2. edited po/xlat.sh and added "--from-code utf-8" to the xgettext line
(see [1] below)
3. ran: po/xlat.sh > po/cin.po (my understanding is that this command
updated the general "cin.po" catalog)
4. ran: msgmerge -U po/fr.po po/cin.po (my understanding is that this
command updated the French "fr.po" translation file from the general
"cin.po" catalog)
5. translates the po/fr.po

It would be great if the knowledgeable people (ping the usual suspects
here: Phyllis & GG!) could tell me if this workflow is fine.