#3678 NORM First D: Use gettext mo file in runtime for translation.

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#3678: Use gettext mo file in runtime for translation.
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 Reporter:  Takashi         |       Owner:  etoys                 
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new                   
 Priority:  normal          |   Milestone:  First Deployment, V1.0
Component:  etoys-activity  |     Version:                        
 Keywords:                  |    Verified:  0                     
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 Bert wrote:
 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2007-September/001045.html

 > The basic idea is to have the po files separate from the application
 > code, no rebuilding is necessary to add translations. The compiled mo
 > files are structured for efficient lookup to be performed at runtime.
 > We'll have to see how efficient that is compared to an in-image
 > solution, but as soon as we have a sufficiently large number of
 > languages, the space wasting alone will make this impractical.

 Korakurider did the first cut:
 http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/etoys/2007-September/001124.html

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