From: kankkune@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Risto Kankkunen) Subject: Re: Dumb Americans (was INTERNATIONALIZATION: JAPAN, FAR EAST) Date: 22 Dec 1992 01:04:23 GMT
>Problem is that programs have to be started through windowing system. Therefore
>this schema doesn't suit for Linux, even though it could be possible to make
>an special window manager for X+Linux to support full localization, but this
>would make Linux incompatible.
X has already support for automatically selecting resources based on
users language, so you don't need any special window managers for this.
For non-X programs, much can be done with extensive use of the locale
functions and using some configuration files to contain the texts the
program outputs.
By the way, the X resource manager is a separate module, which can be
used by non-X programs, too. I think it would be nice to use it in text
based programs, so all the configuration files would have the same
syntax. And if you have a text and window version of a program, they
could share the same configuration file.
--
A witty signature proves nothing