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@@ -137,6 +137,13 @@ instead of positional interpolation (e.g., ``%s`` or ``%d``) whenever you
have more than a single parameter. If you used positional interpolation,
translations wouldn't be able to reorder placeholder text.
+Since string extraction is done by the ``xgettext`` command, only syntaxes
+supported by ``gettext`` are supported by Django. Python f-strings_ and
+`JavaScript template strings`_ are not yet supported by ``xgettext``.
+
+.. _f-strings: https://docs.python.org/3/reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-strings
+.. _JavaScript template strings: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?50920
+
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