Translate Plugin with french as base language

It is possible, but not good practice. Best thing would be to change all the strings to the english version and then translate it to french. Then you would be up to the standards.

Since I do not have enough reputation points to add a comment, I hereby insert the link to a possible duplicate: Link

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