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

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 06:51 -0600, David D. Hagood wrote:
> 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.

How is this different to gettext(), with which English is normally used
as the source language?

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Murray Cumming
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