Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: ACS-LANG

The message would contain the HTML to display the image.

You can embed any HTML In the message. You can refer to variables available in the page as well by surrounding the variable name with % ie: %varname%

In this case it might not be a big win to use acs-lang but instead of your complex switch statement I would name the images with the locale so you can do something like

img src="@mailto:user_locale@_image_name.jpg";

or place them in a folder by locale

img src="/images/@mailto:user_locale@/image_name.jpg";

This is more flexible. It would be interesting to discuss other ways to abstract this type of user interface element. I still think its probably best to use the message keys, then all your localization is done in one place.