[Java-gnome-developer] Translation

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

Related to Hiro's recent posting are two broader issues:

1) are we treating international characters [sets] correctly? 

2) what sort of API should we use in java-gnome to provide for
translation?

*Personally*, I find the GNU/GNOME translation infrastructure somewhat
cumbersome, but there is no denying there is middling string momentum
there.

In C, they use _( "String in English" ) which the calls gettext and what
not to figure out what an appropriate localized translation would be.
I'm suspecting that specific construct won't work in Java [_ isn't a
valud function identifier, is it?; in any case, there are some Java
specific translation methodologies out there that seem to work pretty
well.

I invite comment about what direction we should go.

AfC
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