gettext: Sub-Cultures

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1 12.4.2.1 Sub-Cultures
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1    Taking French for example, there are a few sub-cultures around
1 computers which developed diverging vocabularies.  Picking volunteers
1 here and there without addressing this problem in an organized way, soon
1 in the project, might produce a distasteful mix of internationalized
1 programs, and possibly trigger endless quarrels among those who really
1 care.
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1    Keeping some kind of unity in the way French localization of
1 internationalized programs is achieved is a difficult (and delicate)
1 job.  Knowing the latin character of French people (:-), if we take this
1 the wrong way, we could end up nowhere, or spoil a lot of energies.
1 Maybe we should begin to address this problem seriously _before_ GNU
1 ‘gettext’ become officially published.  And I suspect that this means
1 soon!
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