4.3. Using Message Catalogs
Lojban is culturally fully neutral. Its vocabulary was built algorithmically using today’s six most widely spoken languages: Chinese, Hindi, English, Russian, Spanish, and Arabic.
—What is Lojban?, Nick Nicholas and John Cowan
A message catalog is a collection of messages in a specific language. This is integral to the idea of localization (L10N). The idea is to “isolate” the language-specific strings from the rest of the application so that we can simply “plug in” a different catalog to get messages and strings in a different language.
The “best” way to do this in Ruby is to use the library formally called Ruby-GetText-Package. I’ll simply refer to this as gettext, after the filename of the library; this is not ...
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