On Wednesday 02 May 2007, Peter Stephenson wrote:
> Daniel Qarras <dqarras@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Only thing missing being support for echo $"Starting foo:" style
> > messages (used to localizate the message) but that's not much of a
> > problem.
>
> I don't even know how that works; it doesn't appear to be excessively
> well documented.
>

Also documentation for gettext rather advices against using it and suggests 
using explicit gettext & Co. calls instead:

   The security holes of `$"..."' come from the fact that after looking
up the translation of the string, `bash' processes it like it processes
any double-quoted string: dollar and backquote processing, like `eval'
does.

With obvious implications.

Of course one possibility could be to make result fully quoted and immune to 
any further processing. OTOH it probably still breaks in nested evals.