Original release 20160104

[fex.git] / doc / concept

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@@ -690,6 +690,12 @@ Important for programmers: The perl variables of the F*EX CGI's (fup, fop,
 etc) have their UTF-8 flag turned off. This means, they contain UTF-8 data
 in binary representation.
 
+F*EX has support for many languanges. For every language a translated
+version will be installed in $HOME/locale/
+The switch is done at runtime via locale cookie (by fexsrv).
+Some common functions from fex.pp must be present at any time for any
+locale in any language, eg notification functions. Therfore there is
+$HOME/lib/lf.pl (extracted functions from fex.pp).
 
 I have additional authentication modules for RADIUS, LDAP, mailman and
 POP. Please email me if you are interested.