Preliminary notes. (Note that all of this has already been done for you
in the archive, this is mainly so you can see what to do in your own
projects.)

Create the individiual .pot template files by using:

  baby:~/ttk-gettext--mainline--1.0> perl make-pot.pl test.tmpl | msguniq > tpl-test.pot
  (repeat for multiple templates)
  xgettext --keyword=_ --from-code=utf-8 -o messages.pot -L perl *.pl
  
Merge them all together using msgcat:

  msgcat *.pot > templates.pot

Now you can actually start translating. Do a msginit as usual:

  LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 msginit --input templates.pot

And then translate using the editor of your choice. kbabel is a popular choice,
but you can use your favourite editor by using potool:

  poedit nb.po

And then compile it using msgfmt as usual:

  mkdir -p nb/LC_MESSAGES
  msgfmt -o nb/LC_MESSAGES/myproject.mo nb.po

Now you can compare the output in different locales:

   LANG=C perl process-template.pl 
   LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 perl process-template.pl 

Whenever you change your templates and/or in-code strings, simply recreate
the templates from scratch and run

   msgmerge -U nb.po templates.pot

Then unfuzz, translate new strings and run msgfmt again.

Everything in here is © 2005 Steinar H. Gunderson <sgunderson@bigfoot.com>,
licensed under the GPLv2. Absolutely no warranty. Comments welcome :-)