Re: Non-english strings

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 01:59:38AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> How are gtk apps translated to other languages? Does someone need
> to rewrite all the gtk_label strings in a program?

See gettext: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/

All strings obviously have to be translated.  But equaly
obviously, this is not done by changing them in application
source code.  How would switching lanaguge run-time (by
changing locales) work then?

Yeti


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