=DEann 13-Nov-97 skrifar Steve Lamont:
> To subscribers of the xforms list from spl@szechuan.ucsd.edu (Steve Lam=
ont) :
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>> I have a couple of questions about international applications.
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>[snip]
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> Refer to the "Resources for Forms Library" appendix in the XForms
> manual for details.
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> Although I can see the utility of such extensions to XForms, I'm
> always wary of creeping featurism which leads to library and
> application bloat.
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Personally, I think the "Internationalization" part is a big issue. It
isn't that big a deal, although I admit that the X design group could hav=
e
made this transparent to the designer... instead of making it necessary t=
o
get acquainted with new code for this purpose.
On the text part, it's mostly the "text" (labels) that would need to be
translated. There is a neat way to do this, by using GNU's gettext. It
does require the text part to be used through a 'gettext()' call, which
is often conveniently put into a macro call '_(t)'. It would be neat, if
there was a way to tell fdesign to surround labels with, say '_()'.
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