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+# GitHub's language bar: this C++ table of game texts (its <?name?> placeholders) is not PHP.
+gpu/bbnet20/bbsc/core/bbsc_messages.inc linguist-language=C++
+gpu/bbnet20/bbsc/core/bbsc_translations.inc linguist-language=C++