Re: multi lingual

I suggest you post this question on comp.lang.forth. Many of the folks
there are Europeans who deal with this issue on a regular basis. In
particular, MPE (our main competitor, UK based) has done a lot of work
in this area, and have numerous customers with multi-lingual apps. MPE
has written some papers on the subject (although most deal with multiple
character sets) that they can direct you to. The downside is that some
folks will chime in who have more ideas than experience, but I'm sure
you can sort the wheat from the chaff.

Cheers,
Elizabeth

Gene LeFave wrote:
> Need to get some ideas on multi lingual strings.
>
> I'm looking at the MS message complier in the SDK but not sure of how to
> get the message resource attached to an sf exe, or how to create an empty
> dll with nothing in it but the string resource. Much less the not insignificant
> task of managing all the strings.
>
>
> I'm looking at US, UK , French and Spanish. No non latin alphabets.
>
> Seems to me that STRING could convert the given string into a hash
> number, place the string into a string resource file (possible?) f it's not there
> and then at run time look it up again, with an added language modifier..
> Then we take the resource file and get some translator to write the
> translations. Hopefully, this isn't too much harder then it sounds.
>
> Any suggestions are welcome!
>
> Gene
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