perror, gettext, question marks

[Bruno Haible]

Markus Kuhn asks:

> What really important and essential functionality does LANGUAGE
> provide that LANG/LC_MESSAGES/LC_ALL do not already provide?

Multiple translation languages. If the translation in the preferred
language is not available, then gettext looks for the second-preferred
one, etc. This feature was already present in NeXTstep 10 years ago.

> Blind feature-fetish as opposed to simplicity and predictability
> is what gave M$-Windows its bad reputation after all.

Agreed.

Bruno