On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 03:19:11PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> The subject nearly says it all - why do RedHat init scripts use
>> echo $"Here is a message for stdout"
>> instead of simply
>> echo "Here is a message for stdout"
http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/bash/bashref.html
Bash supports the $"..." quoting syntax to do locale-specific
translation of the characters between the double quotes. The `-D',
`--dump-strings', and `--dump-po-strings' invocation options list the
translatable strings found in a script (see section 3.1.2.5
Locale-Specific Translation).
I18n would appear to be the answer.
Brian
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