This isn't a Perl-specific question, although I am asking about it for a Perl project. I find the expertise and pragmatism of folks on this site outweighs that found on comp.programming for obvious reasons (membership, ranking) and probably other reasons I don't know.

This is a medium-sized project. Not trivial by any means, but not (pardon the jargon) enterprise-class. There is a slight chance it might be used in India or China, as well as here in the U.S. However, let's assume all text output only needs to be in (US) English. In this case, is it worth the effort to have all messages in this command-line suite be separated out into a message catalog? Any benefits aside from easing translation?

FYI, my understanding of India is that everyone's native language is a regional mother-tongue, and that people speak English better than they do the national language (Hindi). Therefore, a Hindi message catalog would be of dubious value, anyway.

In reply to Are Message Catalogs Worth It? by jffry

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