Hi,

I don't know about the real question
(well I think I'd stick to the language chosen for KDE,
in fact the 3 ones - see kcmlocale)
but I know about this one :

> PS: one question that goes with that is: how can I get a 
> translation for the
> CVS HEAD so I can see what effect changing languages has on the UI?

cvs co -l kde-i18n
cvs co -l kde-i18n/fr

(to avoid checking out all of kde-i18n...)

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David Faure
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