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SDK programming => 64-bit SDK programming => Topic started by: James Fuller on December 19, 2016, 11:46:39 am

Title: multi-language apps
Post by: James Fuller on December 19, 2016, 11:46:39 am

Patrice,Mike
  How do you code for multi-language apps?

James

Title: Re: multi-language apps
Post by: Patrice Terrier on December 19, 2016, 01:41:46 pm

Pure SDK procedural style is the only common denominator.

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Title: Re: multi-language apps
Post by: James Fuller on December 19, 2016, 02:28:11 pm

Patrice,
So you maintain a separate app for each language you support ? or ....??

James

Title: Re: multi-language apps
Post by: James Fuller on December 19, 2016, 05:39:55 pm

Patrice,
  I think you misunderstood ?
I meant English, French as languages not programming languages.

James

Title: Re: multi-language apps
Post by: Patrice Terrier on December 19, 2016, 06:03:05 pm

For my demo, most of the time i am using English.
But i could also use external files to store the messages, just like what i am doing to load WinLIFT components from .sks file.

I am also using transparent graphic overlay to display any language when using projects like in the GDImage Settings below

(http://www.zapsolution.com/pictures/settings.png)

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Title: Re: multi-language apps
Post by: Michael Lobko-Lobanovsky on December 21, 2016, 04:13:53 am

Hi James,

FBSL doesn't support Unicode natively but it does support East and West European locale ANSI code pages (like e.g. Russian CP-1251) which are regular parts of respective localized Windows OS distros and downloadable extra language packs. There are no more than 33 glyphs only in a modern Cyrillic alphabet, after all. :)

I rarely code for Russian users as most of my freelance contracts (for both C/C++ and FBSL) come from the West but when I do need locale dependent resources, I tend to use separate resource-only DLLs to host my strings. They would go by the same IDs in all the DLLs so that my main code would remain untouched for all the target locales I need.

I've yet never had a situation though that anybody would order localized version info or image resources from me. I've no experience with matrioshka and balalaika images in place of crystal balls and banjos. :)