Re: Changing the lang by an application

[Havoc Pennington <rhpennin midway uchicago edu>]

On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Tuomas Lukka wrote:
> 
> This approach would have several problems, the most horrible one being
> that if someone had translated a certain string, it would be impossible
> to show that string in any context in Gtk after that.
> 

Yeah, you're right. It can't happen on the application level though, it
would be a nightmare for apps to save a copy of all text and a pointer to
all widgets, just so you can reinsert the text if someone once in a while
changes the language on the fly. Definitely not worth it when you can just
restart the app.

Havoc