I learned a bit more, but progress is slow. Here are some observations:
* I was able to fix the slightly broken ru.po file that we have and get
the Russian translation to work. I didn't really know what I was doing; I
just did make ru.gmo and made likely-looking changes in places where I was
Thanks for the replies.
The first thing to realize here is that because we're using old Xaw widgets
and the old X core fonts mechanism, nothing is going to work great.
Everyone's effort for years has been to make the new Xft font mechanism work
well, convert programs to use it, and make nice
