Re: lynx-dev Re: your mail

[Thomas Dickey]

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 10:11:31AM +0530, SreePriya. G wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> 
> > > It would be nice if anyone can give some insights into 
> > > 
> > > =>the process of providing such a local language support for lynx.
> > > 
> > > 1. the interface
> > > 2. the error messages
> > 
> > we've only looked at gettext (though there is Linux console font support,
> > it's used in Lynx for rendering the display, not for the messages).
> 
> What does the gettext do exactly and how does one go about using it for a
> new language?

gettext replaces at runtime messages that the developers compile into
a library - it allows replacement of the strings.

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