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From: Jacob Sparre Andersen <sparre@nbi.dk>
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Subject: Re: Internationalization for Ada
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:18:49 +0100
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Christophe Chaumet wrote:

> For my own usage I have a package "intl" which contains all the string
> literals and there is an instance of this package for each language
> [...]

But this means that translation has to be done _before_ compilation.

One of the benefits of using the GNU Gettext system is that translators
can translate and distribute translations independent of the compiled
program.

Greetings,

Jacob
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"It is a syntax error to write FORTRAN while not wearing a blue tie."