According to CakePHP documentation, you can use the console to generate .pot file, a template file for all .po files used to localize your website to different languages. The documentation also recommends using PoEdit to edit your .po files.
Since always I try to play nicely with CakePHP, I followed the the directions and used the console to generate the template and PoEdit to generate a .po file from this template, and then ……., nothing worked
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