gettext

[bob cs csoft net]

gettext question.
Say I have a corba object acting as a shared server. Multiple clients can
be hitting this object. Each client can have a different language set. I
would like to be able to pass the LANGUAGE variable from the client to the
server as one of its arguments, and the server should then return data in
that language. is there a function that would work like
gettext("some text to translate", "en:fr") ?

Thanks,
Bob