Do Apps Use a "Root" Locales?

[Daniel Yacob <locales geez org>]

Greetings,

After convincing gnome ghost view to speak amharic:

http://gnome.geez.org/Amharic/ggv.jpg

I was surprised by words that remained in English, "File",
"Settings", "Help", etc.  Looking back thru ggv.po these
msgids just weren't there.  Do gtk apps use a "root"
locale of some sort for common terms?  If so what is
the name of it?

I was also surprised that the spacing between the toolbar
buttons expanded quite a bit.  Anyone know how to remedy
that?

And while I'm asking questions...  Not that unix is want
for more daemons and servers but I got to wondering if
a vocabulary server had ever been attempted as a message
catalog approach?  I'd like to read the findings of such
an experiment.  I'm thinking along the lines of the role
a font server has with respect to apps.

thanks,

/Daniel