Ben Wing <ben(a)666.com&gt; writes: No. I'm saying that you can never assume you will get a complete translation of something like XEmacs and thus you will have to design in something to cope with that. And that is a hard problem. I'm not even sure a practical solution is known. I'm not making these problems up, I see them all around here. Luckily our Unix systems are not localized. It might be a reason to give it more thought before going out to do it. Of course it might be that for some languages it worth having a partial solution now (worse is better and all that). Presumably you would be able to reuse most of the strings in any real solution. Jan