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Re: perror, gettext, question marks
- To: Markus Kuhn <Markus dot Kuhn at cl dot cam dot ac dot uk>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: Re: perror, gettext, question marks
- From: Bruno Haible <haible at ilog dot fr>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:33:55 +0100 (CET)
Markus Kuhn asks:
> What really important and essential functionality does LANGUAGE
> provide that LANG/LC_MESSAGES/LC_ALL do not already provide?
Multiple translation languages. If the translation in the preferred
language is not available, then gettext looks for the second-preferred
one, etc. This feature was already present in NeXTstep 10 years ago.
> Blind feature-fetish as opposed to simplicity and predictability
> is what gave M$-Windows its bad reputation after all.
Agreed.
Bruno