Re: [Devel] Re: What's the translation status for Freetype?

[Pavel Kankovsky]

On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > Perhaps the right approach would be to provide a function returning
> > messages in the english language plus catalogues of translated
> > messages (*.po/*.mo) and let applications that want localized messages
> > to use gettext themselves.
> 
> Please explain in more detail.  I don't fully understand.

The dependance between FT2 and gettext would be avoided--ergo those who do
not need translated messages would not have to link extra code (or build a
special non-i18n version of FT2), yet those who want translated messages
would get them for a rather small cost.

--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak  [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
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