Here is what the search engine at cpan.org brings. Is this something we could use to facilitate separating the language from presentation? Of interest to me is this: "PGetText provides the same functionality as GNU gettext does, but it is written in pure perl and doesn't require any system locale stuff." If someone tells me how to modify perl scripts I will follow blindly the instructions. Results 1 - 5 of 5 Found Gettext Perl extension for emulating gettext-related API. Gettext-0.01 - 08 Jan 2000 - James Briggs gettext message handling functions gettext-1.00 - 22 Jul 1996 - Phillip Vandry Locale::gettext message handling functions gettext-1.01 - 25 Feb 1998 - Phillip Vandry Locale::PGetText pure perl i18n routines Locale-PGetText-0.16 - 20 Feb 1999 - Mike Shoyher Locale::Maketext::Lexicon::Gettext PO and MO file parser for Maketext Locale-Maketext-Lexicon-0.15 - 29 Nov 2002 - ☺唐宗漢☻