Spring RTS Engine

I think a good GUI should be based on files describing where and how and so on everything is displayed. I think Steam is using something like that, isn't it? They use .rc files. Is something like that planned? I know it's a lot of work. Theoretically you could do the translation piece by piece. You ...

So if you hard coded the strings.. is the gui also "hard-coded"?
I mean things like what is shown where etc.

At the beginning of the project it'd have been a bit more work to have many supported languages now. That's a fair tradeoff, I think

Oh man, how can you hard-code it? What about all those people who can't speak English sufficiently?