Comment 2 for bug 101389

This mostly happens when a page template gets a msgid back from a python script or actual code, instead of a string, and then puts that msgid in a tag with the i18n:translate attribute. I wonder how often this happens, I'm guessing it's not very common, but one area to explore might be the status messages, since they are most commonly created in scripts (as msgids) and then shown in page templates. It would be good to ensure that these are not translated again. There might be other cases where this happens, but I'm not sure how easy they are to hunt down.