At 08:18 PM 4/29/02 +0200, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote: >Dom Lachowicz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> *) Stops re-duplication of strings > >Some strings probably *need* to be duplicated. I'm thinking of >strings which are identical in English, but not in the target >language. I have also localized Mozilla, and there I found several >such strings, e.g. 'Forward' (which could mean the opposite of >'back' or 'to send on'). Such strings are sure to crop up in >AbiWord too, sooner or later.
Yep. This is a known problem with gettext's use of strings (instead of IDs) as lookup keys: http://www.gnu.org/manual/glibc-2.2.3/html_node/libc_127.html#SEC136 The workarounds proposed there don't seem all that helpful. I assume that Dom has a strategy for this, though. Paul
