[development] Locale module and gettext

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Hi there,

IIRC there has been speculation that using the gettext object files (.mo 
files) for storing translations instead of the database would be a lot 
faster. Unfortunately, I can not confirm this. It seems to be somewhat 
faster but not that much that I'd consider the inclusion of such a 
feature worthwhile. The configuration is rather awkward and error prone.

Cheers,
    Gerhard