Previously Ben Pfaff wrote: > 22. Localization: text which will be visible to the user should never be > embedded within the source code. All string literals should be placed in a > separate header file to ease the pain of possible future translation. > > That is not the Unix style. Unix is a multi-user OS, and users expect > to be able to choose their preferred language at runtime. Using the > above technique would force the program to be recompiled to change the > language choice. That is a *very* important point, and I think you're the first to realize this. Basically the motto is: use gettext, unless you have a *VERY* good reason not to, and even then think twice. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wichert@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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