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From: erik@srava.sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Language dependent application defaults
Keywords: Localization, Application Defaults
Message-ID: <3890@srava.sra.co.jp>
Date: 16 Feb 90 08:48:23 GMT
References: <898@ztivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: erik@sra.co.jp (Erik M. van der Poel)
Organization: Software Research Associates, Inc., Japan
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In article <898@ztivax.UUCP> kap121@ztivax.UUCP (Thomas Oeser) writes:
> 	NOTE - In the case of catgets() it is already possible to run 
> 	without any additional files, when the fallback strings in catgets()
> 	are properly set.

	NOTE - In the case of XtAppInitialize() it is already possible to run 
	without any additional files, when the fallback strings in same
	are properly set. :-)

In fact, this is what Chris uses in xman to be able to tell the user
that no app-defaults file was found.

But let's get down to the point here. The X/Open catgets catalogues
are only for multilingual text, while app-defaults files are for all
sorts of resources including e.g. border width. So I suppose what you
are trying to say is that we should keep language-dependent files in
one place, specified by the environment variable NLSPATH. We could
achieve this by keeping only language-independent files under
/usr/lib/X11/app-defaults. But I imagine that the Xt people decided to
put language-dependent files under the app-defaults directory too
because X/Open is not the only standard out there. In AT&T's MNLS, for
example, the internationalized files are under /lib/locale. Somebody
correct me if I'm wrong. What about POSIX? And others?

Basically, what I'm trying to say is that not everyone has catgets().