Proposal for Standard.catalog

[itix]

This exists already, just use the catalogs provided by the OS.

That is not good practise since those catalogs may get renamed, changed or removed.

[itix]

:laughing: By whom? Cloanto? Hahahahaha :rofl:

Maybe. Besides, catalogs only work on certain specific OS version. 2.1 and 3.0/3.1 may have different strings than 3.5 and 3.9 and catalogs are completely different (catalog names and IDs) in MorphOS and AROS, very likely in OS4 too.

[itix]

Also if a standard catalog exists for a certain language but not a translation for the program, you may be faced with a mixture of translated and English strings. This might be more confusing than helpful for the user.

There could be online database for some standard strings found in applications and catalog editors could suggest translation from this database. This process could be even automatized if standard identifier is used, e.g. MSG_MENU_PROJECT or such.