[Gnash-dev] i18n in server messages

[Eric Hughes]

Folks:

I'm starting to write HTTP error messages for Cygnal and I'm concerned 
about internationalization.  HTTP has a header field "Accept-Language:" 
which specifies a list of acceptable languages with optional 
preferences.  I just read over the gettext documentation and apparently the 
only way (at least that I could see) to switch languages is with 
setlocale(), which isn't thread-safe in general and by all reports 
slow.  Everything I read points to this being completely intentional, given 
that the only use case was one of a user sitting at their workstation using 
local software.

So, is this assumption right, that there's no overt support for multiple 
simultaneous languages used by a server?  At the very least there would 
have to be some run-time way of querying what's available in translated 
form, and I didn't see anything like that at all.

Eric