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- 
- kpicosim - a development environment for microcontrollers. 
- 
-
-Kpicosim is a development environment for the Xilinx PicoBlaze-3 
-soft-core processor for TDE.
-The environment has an editor with syntax highlighting, compiler,
-simulator and export functions to VHDL, HEX and MEM files.
-
-
- CONTRIBUTING
-==============
-
-If you wish to contribute to kpicosim (TDE), you might do so:
-
-- TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool.
-  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea
-
-- TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool.
-  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate
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+ kpicosim - a development environment for microcontrollers.
+
+
+Kpicosim is a development environment for the Xilinx PicoBlaze-3
+soft-core processor for TDE.
+The environment has an editor with syntax highlighting, compiler,
+simulator and export functions to VHDL, HEX and MEM files.
+
+.
+
+Contributing
+--------------
+
+If you wish to contribute to kpicosim (TDE), you might do so:
+
+- TDE Gitea Workspace (TGW) collaboration tool.
+  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea
+
+- TDE Weblate Translation Workspace (TWTW) collaboration tool.
+  https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate
+
+
+Translations status
+---------------------
+
+### messages
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/kpicosim/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/kpicosim/)
+
+### desktop files
+[![Translations status](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/widgets/applications/-/kpicosim-kpicosimdesktop/multi-auto.svg
+"Engage in translating")](https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/weblate/projects/applications/kpicosim-kpicosimdesktop/)