Not getting lost in translations

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Describes a library that preserves compile‑time checks of std::format while allowing runtime language selection by compiling gettext PO/MO data into the binary and using a compile‑time hash of format texts. Uses the Unicode CLDR plural rules to pick plural forms, implements a format_string_translator that finds the plural argument via template pack folding and converts heterogeneous arg packs to an indexable array, and runs a compile‑time integration test over ~500 translations to validate behavior on MSVC/Clang/GCC toolchains.

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1. 0:00Machine translation software
2. 3:01Company founding and architecture
3. 6:12Choosing text files
4. 15:07Boost.Format limitations
5. 18:22Template metaprogramming costs
6. 23:24String formatting in C++20
7. 26:00Constant evaluation in compilers
8. 31:23Compile-time translation design
9. 40:09Heterogeneous type sequences
10. 48:46Pattern matching for translation
11. 54:32Compile-time testing
12. 57:46Conclusion

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