Re: Handling of /usr/share/locale for package name changes
On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 10:59:47PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le dimanche 11 février 2007 à 12:50 -0800, Steve Langasek a écrit :
> > Well, the translations really should not be part of the ABI of the library;
> > libraries shouldn't be engaging in direct interaction with the user, so the
> > use case for localization of libraries is really limited to interfaces such
> > as strerror() which will localize numeric codes for you.
> What about libraries providing graphical widgets? On the contrary, it's
> better when most of the localized text is provided by the library, so
> that translations are consistent across different software.
Ok, that's fair; I suppose that is a very significant use case that needs to
be taken into consideration for GUI toolkits.
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