A method for supplying, in a target language, lingual messages used in an application program (102), comprises the steps of (a) representing each lingual message in the application program by a footprint identifier and an allocated space; (b) storing, in a language file (104), lingual messages in the target language in a prescribed sequence; and (c) writing lingual messages from the language file for the target language into the application program including the steps of: (i) where each stored lingual message corresponds to a distinct footprint identifier, searching in the application program for all footprint identifiers one after another in the same sequence as the corresponding lingual messages are stored in the language file; and (ii) reading from the language file the ith lingual message in target language and writing said ith lingual message in the sequence of stored lingual messages in each allocated space in the application program at which an ith searched footprint in the search sequence is found.
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