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From: dbrooks@osf.org
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Subject: Re: The LANG environment variable
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Date: 23 Mar 91 04:38:09 GMT
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I wrote:

>X11R4 does.

(Long and boring description of Xt's i18n deleted).

It occurs to me that all that verbiage hides the central points.  So, for
clarity's sake:

- you can specify a language, using the LANG variable or the server
  database, on a per-application-context basis.

- the language can be used to select a set of resource files, uid files,
  and a bitmap directory (yes, even icons are often culture-specific).

- If you use the normal standard setup, all the administrator has to do is
  deposit the required files in the right subdirectories: for example,
  /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/french/.

David Brooks
OSF