[snip]An argument for demand-downloaded .mo files, then?
An argument for simply adding the translations to res.rc as localized STRINGTABLES.^^^^^^^^^^^^ MESSAGETABLES
Then you can use FormatMessage() and things are much less brain-bamaging.
But then you need some extra software to compile the messagetables.
Unless binutils has grown support for this recently, we can't use messagetables.
Max.