[ros-kernel] l18n in react os

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At 01.33 09/10/2003, you wrote:
>I was wondering what will be the approach in this project for i18n. The 
>approach in MS world is to recompile with new strings.

no. Microsoft used to maintain separate builds for each language, but most 
other vendors didn't. Currently, even Microsoft has abandoned the old model

>Is it possible to use gettext()?

I want to be clear: I'm not too fond of excessive "GNU-phily". gettext 
isn't standard on UNIX ("GNU isn't UNIX"...), neither on Windows, both of 
which define simple, efficient (and very similar) ways to localize strings. 
And I don't think the complexity of gettext is justified by anything 
simpler than an office suite. We don't *need* gettext, we shouldn't paint 
ourselves in a corner so happily about it. On top of that, add the fact 
that ReactOS, being Windows, will have to support the MUI API, sooner or 
later, and we'll likely end up using that