On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 06:17:14PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> I don't think all of the relevant documentation should be included,
> but it wasn't clear (for someone who doesn't know the internals of
> X) if these translations were specific to XTerm or were general to
> X resources. In the latter case, the man page could still point to
> the relevant documentation (which should be written if it doesn't
> exist yet).

The translations resource is a feature of Xt (X Toolkits Intrinsics),
and is also used in other code such as the Athena widgets.

apropos "Translations" shows a place to start:

XtAugmentTranslations		XtParseTranslationTable (3) - manage translation tables

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