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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    Re: Dual language interface
From:       "Erik K. Pedersen" <erik () binghamton ! edu>
Date:       2001-08-30 16:20:55
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2001, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> On Thursday 30 August 2001 17:38, Erik K. Pedersen wrote:
> > This is an extremely good idea. It would improve the translations
> > tremendously, making it easy to find what something is translated from
> >
>
> This is also a horribly memory eating idea as you have to remember the
> strings somewhere. Currently the english comes from the executable, the
> translations are on the fly generated from .mo files. For your idea you need
> some kind of reverse lookup. As .mo files are hashed for english ->
> translation, this might become a quite expensive if not impossible thing.
>
> Greetings, Stephan
>

-- 

But a menuitem that essentially restarted the program in another language
working on the same file, would not have that problem I guess. I use say
KDE_LANG=C program
and I thought the request was to make that kind of thing a little easier
for people. I am not so sure whether it really is a good idea.

Erik

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