smarty and GNU gettext

hi list -

there is a great GNU library for dealing with localisation, that has a
php function gettext()
http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.gettext.php

many high-end PHP projects use this (wordpress, drupal).

I was wondering if there is a way to use this with smarty?

basically gettext is a php function, so if this is used in the middle
of a smarty template, it will make templates really ugly. I think!
Unless there is a clean way to inline php funcs inside smarty...

also, since a php funciton is being called in the middle of a
template, i imagine this stops smarty from being able to pre-compie/
cache the template itself?

So, any suggested approaches?

Can a modifier function work directly on a string? eg if i created a
localize() modifier that called gettext, then:

had a template like this:

{ "message list" | localize }

rather than puttig the english "message list" in a separate tag to be
passed to smarty:

{$messageListTag|localize}

this would require all the tags to be read in ahead of time, and
another level of indirection + probably reading lots of irrelevant
tags per page.

thanks for any help as always!

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