Re: Changing the lang by an application

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Sun, Nov 22, 1998 at 01:39:24AM -0600, Havoc Pennington 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.

what's the point of changing languages on the fly anyway ... it's not
something like themes ... you're likely to use the same language all the
time ...

George

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