Re: ircd i18n, suggested protocol extension

[Bobby Billingsley <bobby@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, Per von Zweigbergk wrote:

> That's why I thought of sending a LANG message before sending the PING. An
> i18n-supporting IRC client would respond to the LANG before responding to
> the PING, but an older client would just ignore the LANG and just reply to
> the PING and defualt to English.
> 
> Any ideas on this approach? Except that it's a bit of work, that is.

Wouldn't http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/gettext.html on the client side
be more appropriate?

/bobby

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