Re: gettext - was: Re: ASCII and Unicode Quotation Marks

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Andries.Brouwer@xxxxxx writes:

>     In cases such as these, _if_ you're using an English .po, you can easily  
>     add a tag to the in-program message to disambiguate. It should not be a  
>     problem to word it in a way that it still works as fallback.
> 
>     MfG Kai
> 
> Oh, of course one can kludge around gettext deficiencies,
> it is not a serious problem, but it is a tiny annoyance.
> 
> For small homogeneous projects gettext() is easier; for large
> or inhomogeneous projects the message catalog approach is more powerful
> and more convenient.

Apparently you both have not only spend no time thinking about
solutions, you have also not tried to read up what others think.  Read
the section about message handling in the glibc 2.2 manual (available
from the CVS archive, e.g., through the web interface on
sourceware.cygnus.com).

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