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+help:
+	@echo 'Makefile for translation                                                  '
+	@echo '                                                                          '
+	@echo 'Usage:                                                                    '
+	@echo '   make extract                      Extract message strings              '
+	@echo '   make update                       Extract strings and update po files  '
+	@echo '   make compile                      Compile po files to mo files         ' 
+	@echo '                                                                          '
+
+extract:
+	pybabel extract --mapping babel.cfg --output messages.pot ./
+
+update: extract
+	pybabel update --input-file messages.pot --output-dir translations/ --domain messages
+
+compile:
+	pybabel compile --directory translations/ --domain messages
+
+.PHONY: help extract update compile