On 2010-07-04 at 12:58:27 [+0200], Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote: > Have you considered how language runtimes are supposed to handle > this .a file? E.g. Python, Mono, Java, ... > Should that be linked into the runtime once, independent of the > application to be localized? P/invoking a static library from managed > code is impossible in Mono, I fear, without loading a native dynamic > library linked to the static one. And needing a JNI library just to > localize an otherwise pure Java application would seem odd, too. Besides that I guess that those languages come with there own localization mechanism anyway -- at least Java does -- liblocale.so does not dependent on the static library in any way. CU, Ingo