Watch out for:

• Encoding/charset problems. In practice, don't use a Perl before 5.8, and keep all your strings in a utf-8-encoded file. Be prepared to transcode them (see Encode) for the display, though.
• Plural forms. Just because some languages have two forms, don't assume every other has too. There are languages with a different form for "2 thing" and "more than 2 things", or different forms depending on $x%10. And 0 is singular in some languages and plural in others...

I'd advise you to look into the modifications made to gettext and family by the KDE team. A couple of friends of mine are on the italian translation team, and from what I've seen their gettext works with most languages.

And for interfacing it with Perl, Inline::C!

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        dakkar - Mobilis in mobile

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