Re: lynx-dev gettext() question

[Nelson Henry Eric]

> > Just don't install a lynx.mo file and you'll get the defaults.
> > Gettext falls back to the msgid if it can't find another catalogue.
> 
> At compile time or when the binary already installed?

At run time.  The *.mo file is referenced by the running binary.
The *.po file, from which the *.mo file is produced, is what the
human translating the strings uses.  Neither of them are needed
at compile time.

> If it's at run-time, lynx should certainly have a command-line
> switch -english for person like me who cannot guess (undocumented)

Sorry, I don't follow you here.  Please explain again.

__Henry