[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Identifiers instead of English strings

[From: David D. Hagood]

Murray Cumming wrote:
> Is there some explanation somewhere about the use of these strange
> identifiers instead of English strings in the maemo source code. What is
> the advantage?
> 

Internationalization (I18N) - the strings are kept in a set of  separate 
files, one for each language. The code then accesses that file to get 
the string. Thus, you create a new file, and suddenly your app speaks 
Spanish.