Guidelines on translated text (Yves Mettier, Simon Bellwood, Andreas Ericsson)

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                <para>It is up to third party programs to convert the Nagios plugins 
                performance data into graphs.</para>
                </section>
+
+       <section><title>Translations</title>
+       <para>If possible, use translation tools for all output. Currently, most of the core C plugins 
+       use gettext for translation. General guidelines are:</para>
+
+       <orderedlist>
+       <listitem><para>short help is not translated</para></listitem>
+       <listitem><para>long help has options in English language, but text translated</para></listitem>
+       <listitem><para>"Copyright" kept in English</para></listitem>
+       <listitem><para>copyright holder names kept in original text</para></listitem>
+       </orderedlist>
+       </section>
 </section>
 
 <section id="SysCmdAuxFiles"><title>System Commands and Auxiliary Files</title>