> So please either show me the error of my thinking, or stick to adding
> _() to translatable strings.
> 
> Much of this patch is good and wanted, I'm not sure about the whole.
> Similarly for patch 2.

Yeah, the options stuff was a mistake which I thought I had avoided. 
Will fix all this up and post a fresh patch set.

But my impression was a double-byte "." is not the same as a single-byte 
".".  I'm not an expert, and would be happy if someone (like a 
distributor) had an internationalization expert they could loan us.

> I only got 12 of the 23 patches??

The list didn't see half of these either.  Will investigate.  I probably 
shut down my laptop before it was done relaying the patches.