Forum OpenACS Development: Re: The automated localization of strings is getting annoying :(

Best solution in my opinion is close to what dave suggests. If you can't find a message key, check if the first part of the key is a valid package_key. If it is not, display the message, if it is display the "message_key" not found error message.

This should help you further, unless you way:

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