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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def load_translations(directory: str, encoding: str = None) -> None: """Loads translations from CSV files in a directory. Translations are strings with optional Python-style named placeholders (e.g., ``My name is %(name)s``) and their associated translations. The directory should have translation files of the form ``LOCALE.csv``, e.g. ``es_GT.csv``. The CSV files should have two or three columns: string, translation, and an optional plural indicator. Plural indicators should be one of "plural" or "singular". A given string can have both singular and plural forms. For example ``%(name)s liked this`` may have a different verb conjugation depending on whether %(name)s is one name or a list of names. There should be two rows in the CSV file for that string, one with plural indicator "singular", and one "plural". For strings with no verbs that would change on translation, simply use "unknown" or the empty string (or don't include the column at all). The file is read using the `csv` module in the default "excel" dialect. In this format there should not be spaces after the commas. If no ``encoding`` parameter is given, the encoding will be detected automatically (among UTF-8 and UTF-16) if the file contains a byte-order marker (BOM), defaulting to UTF-8 if no BOM is present. Example translation ``es_LA.csv``:: "I love you","Te amo" "%(name)s liked this","A %(name)s les gustó esto","plural" "%(name)s liked this","A %(name)s le gustó esto","singular" .. versionchanged:: 4.3 Added ``encoding`` parameter. Added support for BOM-based encoding detection, UTF-16, and UTF-8-with-BOM. """

    global _translations
    global _supported_locales
    _translations = {}
    for path in os.listdir(directory):
        if not path.endswith(".csv"):
            continue
        locale, extension = path.split(".")
        if not re.match("[a-z]+(_[A-Z]+)?$", locale):
            gen_log.error(
                "Unrecognized locale %r (path: %s)",
                locale,
                os.path.join(directory, path),
            )
            continue
        full_path = os.path.join(directory, path)
        if encoding is None:
            # Try to autodetect encoding based on the BOM.
            with open(full_path, "rb") as bf:
                data = bf.read(len(codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE))
            if data in (codecs.BOM_UTF16_LE, codecs.BOM_UTF16_BE):
                encoding = "utf-16"
            else:
                # utf-8-sig is "utf-8 with optional BOM". It's discouraged
                # in most cases but is common with CSV files because Excel
                # cannot read utf-8 files without a BOM.
                encoding = "utf-8-sig"
        # python 3: csv.reader requires a file open in text mode.
        # Specify an encoding to avoid dependence on $LANG environment variable.
        with open(full_path, encoding=encoding) as f:
            _translations[locale] = {}
            for i, row in enumerate(csv.reader(f)):
                if not row or len(row) < 2:
                    continue
                row = [escape.to_unicode(c).strip() for c in row]
                english, translation = row[:2]
                if len(row) > 2:
                    plural = row[2] or "unknown"
                else:
                    plural = "unknown"
                if plural not in ("plural", "singular", "unknown"):
                    gen_log.error(
                        "Unrecognized plural indicator %r in %s line %d",
                        plural,
                        path,
                        i + 1,
                    )
                    continue
                _translations[locale].setdefault(plural, {})[english] = translation
    _supported_locales = frozenset(list(_translations.keys()) + [_default_locale])
    gen_log.debug("Supported locales: %s", sorted(_supported_locales))