Re: Proceeding with gettext

> Bruce Momjian writes:
> 
> > Peter, can you give a little sample of how an elog() call would look in
> > the new system?  Thanks.
> 
> No change.
> 
> elog() would call gettext() internally, so the code change there is
> localized to elog.c.  For other function calls that contain translatable
> message strings it looks like (example from psql):
> 
>     fprintf(stderr, gettext("Invalid command \\%s. Try \\? for help.\n"), my_line);
> 
> So obviously it would pay off if the communication of a program was
> encapsulated in a limited number of functions.

Sounds great!

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