in reply to i18n in Perl/Tk

perl's i18n support is pretty complete, so I'd answer your first two answers with 'yes'.

As for the third, see perllocale, perluniintro, perlunicode, the module Encode for encoding and recoding. For Tk-specific "best practice" (language files?) I have no answer, since I never did such a thing.

--shmem

_($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo.  G°\        /
                              /\_¯/(q    /
----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}