From: Christian Biesinger (cbiesinger@web.de)
Date: Mon Apr 29 2002 - 10:59:57 EDT
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 04:54:54PM +0200, Christian Biesinger wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 10:33:57AM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > I propose that we ditch our strings approach and instead switch to GNU
> > gettext.
> >
> > Benefits:
> > *) Easier for translators to do
> > *) Because of ^^^, we will get more translations, esp. from the GNOME
> > translation teams
> > *) Stops re-duplication of strings
>
> Great idea!
> Also, this means that adding a new string is easy, just do a
> _("english string") call (no need to change ap_StringIds.h or what that's
> called).
nevermind this comment; as the plan is to keep the current interface and
use gettext only very internally, this does not apply.
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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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