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Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.

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jvromans
Date:
June 16, 2006 16:03
Subject:
Re: Its time we set the score straight on Perl 5 and Perl 6 and debunk our own self generated FUD.
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17555.14479.27479.152794@phoenix.squirrel.nl
[Quoting Alan Olsen, on June 16 2006, 15:51, in "Re: Its time we set "]
> On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 00:45 +0200, Johan Vromans wrote:
> 
> > BTW: Ever tried to make a gettext-translatable program that did _not_
> > use English as the base language? You'd be surprised what happens...
> 
> For those of us who speak mostly English, what does happen?

Spoiler: When you try to create a new translation called english, the
gettext software insist on using this as the base version, effectivily
losing all your current translations. Apparently the software authors
did not realise that one would ever want translate a non-english
program into english...

-- Johan
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