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Many NetBeans components will currently insert #NOI18N in front of a line of a resource file, if it knows it is not a key for i18n (i.e. the JSR-296 support does this a lot). When adding other locales for a default property file in NetBeans, NetBeans should then NOT copy keys which have been marked "#NOI18N" since a missing key in a derived/specific version will automatically trigger a lookup in the default. It is more DRY and by experience, translators have a hard time knowing which keys to translate and which ones not.
As I understand this problem belongs to i18n category so that reassigning - please evaluate. Thanks.