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- From: "Kai Hofmann" <i07m@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
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- Subject: Re: Locale.library (was PageStream 3.0i Released)
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 11:55:56 +0100
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- Michael Loader schrieb in comp.sys.amiga.applications ueber "Re:
- Locale.library (was PageStream 3.0i Released)":
- > Locale was a great idea to make localization easier. Unfortunately,
- > it doesn't support all of the things PageStream requires. One example:
- > Locale requires that all strings in a program be in one string table.
- > We're getting ready to split PageStream into multiple string tables.
- > This will make Locale compatibility impossible. PageStream has too
- > many strings to make management of them in one string table practical,
- > so splitting it up into multiple string tables will make things easier
- > for us.
-
- You can open more than one catalog file!
-
- > Another reason is that PageStream's interface is not string sensitive.
- > If a string became longer, the interface would be messed up.
-
- Thats the real problem! Bad user interface design ...
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