On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Bart Schaefer wrote: > On May 2, 5:36pm, Peter Stephenson wrote: > } > } > Only thing missing being support for echo $"Starting foo:" style > } > messages (used to localizate the message) but that's not much of a > } > problem. > } > } I don't even know how that works; it doesn't appear to be excessively > } well documented. > > I'm sure it relies on GNU gettext. > this is unspecified. On systems supporting gettext it is likely it; it may well be catgets (if my memory serves me right) or whatever. > $"Your message here" is equivalent to $(gettext -s "Your message here"), > as far as I can tell, though it calls the library internally rather than > executing it as an external command. > One problem is I do not see any portable way to specify message catalog when using $"...". You are unlikely to be interested in internal bash messages.
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