On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:55:06PM -0600, Alex Roitman wrote: > Does this mean that there will be absoluteley no support for other languages?
No. > Are there any other ways to translate interface without gettext support? Yes. There's the X/Open "catgets()" scheme, which comes *native* with many UNIXes - including at least some Linux distributions. It means you have to pick numbers for messages, but that's life. I don't particularly think the "just use the English-language message as the key when doing a catalog lookup" notion really adds much. > Does an option of translatability (to potentially any language) > outweigh the trouble of having to use gettext? It's not an either-or situation. > Is it such a pain to install gettext? It's more of a pain than not installing it....
