You didn't look at the link. :)  The point is that gettext is only
useful in the most trivial of cases.  From a functional programming
point of view, a mapping from one language to another can't always be
expressed as a simple string translation.  In many cases it has to be
a function, and that's what this library allows you to do.

On 10/12/07, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of anything like this for Squeak?  I'm sure something
> > like this could be made much more powerful and elegant in ST.
> >
> > If there isn't, then this would be a good project for someone.  This
> > kind of thing will get more and more important on the web. (and yes, I
> > will do it myself if no one else does by the time I get around to it
> > :).
>
> Gettext is available for GNU Smalltalk, it should not be hard to port it.
>
> Paolo
>
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