On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:40:19 -0600, Perry Smith wrote: > From Andreas's reply, it may not. In AIX, they want the message to >come out in the user's native language so they print out the >translated message (that comes from a separate file).
It's the same with gettext. You have a file containing key and value (i.e. original text and it's translation) for each language, normally residing under /usr/share/locale/<languge>/LC_MESSAGE/<package name>.mo . Now in order to retrieve the localized message, the library will search for a translation matching the message in the program by searching the relevant message catalog for the current locale. Philipp
