Multi-(human)language programs

[A. Buza]

I'm interested in writing programs that can be easily translated from one language to the other (i.e, english->german, english->japanese, *not* things like C->Java ;) ). I've looked around for information on Unicode, SJIS, and things of that nature, but haven't been able to find much, other than I'm supposed to use wchar_t, and create translation files.

Anyone know where I could find more information or, beter yet, code samples? It'd help me out a lot.

Thanks.

[jemfinch]

This might be was GNU gettext is for.

Jeremy

[Stuka]

gettext is indeed what you're looking for - I've seen info on it, but can't remember where it hides. In essence what it does is check the locale, and read in specific strings depending on that info.

[Piix4]

Surely then the more mathematical the language the easier it would be for more people to understand? Maybe Prolog or Lisp(I dunno about Lisp and syntax etc).