Re: [Discuss-gnustep] Localization

[Frederic Stark]

> Actually, if I have to say it all :), and scandalize everyone with a 
> modest proposal, why don't we hack NSConstantString to  
automatically and
> silently translate every constant string into the current locale.

Was about to rant against this. The time I understood the 'modest  
proposal' reference, I had already hit the reply button.

> That would be programmer-friendly programming: everything you write is 
> always and automatically localized without programmer's  
intervention.  It
> would even be better than gettext - you don't even need the _().
>
> This is a proposal meant more to scandalize than to be taken seriously, 
> but it sums up what I think should be the aim of localization API  
efforts:
> complete total silent automatical localization without any programmer's 
> intervention. :)

What about silently looking on the web to babelfish the application  
automagically at run time ? :-)

Cheers,

--fred