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Re: i18n for boot-floppies



On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:56:55PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote:
> At 15:21 -0400 1999-05-20, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> >Joey, one other important tidbit is that the potato LINGUA / messages
> >handling is a little different (using something called "pointerize")
> >-- I don't know if that impacts your proposed solution.
> 
> Can someone please explain to me why pointerize is necessary? What is 
> wrong with gettext?

In one word: size. (There's a long explanation in a README inside
pointerize*.deb. One hint: pointerize is just a modified gettext).

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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es


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