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From: nazgul@alfalfa.com (Kee Hinckley)
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Subject: Re: What is the purpose of translation
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Date: 9 Jan 91 01:36:40 GMT
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> What is the purpose of the translation manager, it does not seem to work in a
> useful manner.  I am writing a terminal emulator, and I figure I can modify
> the behavior of the text widget by overriding certain translations.
> Unfortunately, overriding a single translation often break all of the other
> translations.  Am I wrong in my assumption that I can modify a widget by
> modifying the translation?

From what I've seen in previoius postings, overriding a translation
(other than in the code, after the widget is created) will
cause no other translations to ever be added, due to Motif
quirks.  Thus the Motif widget will have no translations (other
than the one you just added).  I haven't heard of a workaround.

Others should no better - is this the correct summary?