[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 04:55:06PM -0600, Alex Roitman wrote:
> Does this mean that there will be absoluteley no support for other languages?

No.

> Are there any other ways to translate interface without gettext support?

Yes.  There's the X/Open "catgets()" scheme, which comes *native* with
many UNIXes - including at least some Linux distributions.

It means you have to pick numbers for messages, but that's life.  I
don't particularly think the "just use the English-language message as
the key when doing a catalog lookup" notion really adds much.

> Does an option of translatability (to potentially any language) 
> outweigh the trouble of having to use gettext? 

It's not an either-or situation.

> Is it such a pain to install gettext?

It's more of a pain than not installing it....