BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  GNU gettext question          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Internationalization View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message Holger Zwingmann Guest Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 7:56 am    Post subject: GNU gettext question Hi all! I am using Delphi 7 within a german WIN2K environment. I am going to develop a small tool (which is only going to be used within Europe) where I want to have all my stings in English. Thus, my idea is to develop in German, put put some English translations in the localeenLC_MESSAGES directory and add them as embedded translations to my binary. Am I going to run into any problems doing so? Also, being kind of new to the microsoft world and especially to Delphi, I would like to know how to force the generated executeable to set it's "default language" to English - otherwise, e.g. in Spain, the above "trick" won't work, right?! Of course it would be nicest to use a English Delphi IDE within a German WIN2K envronment, but I have to admit that I do not know to do that. By the way, would I still need to set my application language to English in such a setup? Regards, Holger. Back to top Lars B. Dybdahl Guest Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:45 am    Post subject: Re: GNU gettext question Holger Zwingmann wrote: Quote: have all my stings in English. Thus, my idea is to develop in German, put put some English translations in the localeenLC_MESSAGES directory and Version 1.1 was recently released, and this version removes all strings that contain non-ascii characters from the translation list. This ensures that your translated application will work on any computer, also one belonging to a greek guy who moved to Germany with his computer, or on a russian computer. Therefore, I would highly recommend you to use English as original language. Quote: microsoft world and especially to Delphi, I would like to know how to force the generated executeable to set it's "default language" to English otherwise, e.g. in Spain, the above "trick" won't work, right?! You just start programming using English strings. You don't set a default language. Quote: Of course it would be nicest to use a English Delphi IDE within a German The language of the Delphi IDE has nothing to do with this. Lars. -- Freelance programmer Denmark Free GNU gettext for Delphi i18n/localization tool: http://dybdahl.dk/dxgettext/ Back to top Holger Zwingmann Guest Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 9:13 am    Post subject: Re: GNU gettext question Thanks for the quick response, but I guess I need to clearify something: The point is, that I do not want to change each caption by hand after e.g. adding (standard-)actions using the actionmanger. The default captions used by the actionmanager depend on the windows language settings. Spreading these actions out by drang and drop, e.g. to generate entries in my task-bar and menu-bar couses new captions in the systems language. The idea is to use gettext to replace all of those German stings. No question that using English captions when doing everything by hand is easy. Assuming that replacing the german stings with gettext works, I do not want to mix languages and therefore the idea was to have everything in German and use gettext to move to English afterwards. Holger. "Lars B. Dybdahl" <Lars (AT) dybdahl (DOT) dk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:3f1ba814 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com... Quote: Holger Zwingmann wrote: have all my stings in English. Thus, my idea is to develop in German, put put some English translations in the localeenLC_MESSAGES directory and Version 1.1 was recently released, and this version removes all strings that contain non-ascii characters from the translation list. This ensures that your translated application will work on any computer, also one belonging to a greek guy who moved to Germany with his computer, or on a russian computer. Therefore, I would highly recommend you to use English as original language. microsoft world and especially to Delphi, I would like to know how to force the generated executeable to set it's "default language" to English otherwise, e.g. in Spain, the above "trick" won't work, right?! You just start programming using English strings. You don't set a default language. Of course it would be nicest to use a English Delphi IDE within a German The language of the Delphi IDE has nothing to do with this. Lars. -- Freelance programmer Denmark Free GNU gettext for Delphi i18n/localization tool: http://dybdahl.dk/dxgettext/ Back to top Lars B. Dybdahl Guest Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 7:35 pm    Post subject: Re: GNU gettext question Holger Zwingmann wrote: Quote: The default captions used by the actionmanager depend on the windows language settings. Huh? I'm using a Danish Windows version with Danish settings, and everything in my Delphi is pure English. Nothing Danish anywhere. But anyway - everything that is ascii can be translated no matter what language you are using. Lars Dybdahl. -- Freelance programmer Denmark Free GNU gettext for Delphi i18n/localization tool: http://dybdahl.dk/dxgettext/ Back to top Leo Saguisag (Borland) Guest Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:18 pm    Post subject: Re: GNU gettext question Why don't you just use resourcestrings instead of going through the GNU gettext function? -- Leo "Holger Zwingmann" <holger.zwingmann (AT) p3-solutions (DOT) de> wrote Quote: Hi all! I am using Delphi 7 within a german WIN2K environment. I am going to develop a small tool (which is only going to be used within Europe) where I want to have all my stings in English. Thus, my idea is to develop in German, put put some English translations in the localeenLC_MESSAGES directory and add them as embedded translations to my binary. Am I going to run into any problems doing so? Also, being kind of new to the microsoft world and especially to Delphi, I would like to know how to force the generated executeable to set it's "default language" to English - otherwise, e.g. in Spain, the above "trick" won't work, right?! Of course it would be nicest to use a English Delphi IDE within a German WIN2K envronment, but I have to admit that I do not know to do that. By the way, would I still need to set my application language to English in such a setup? Regards, Holger. Back to top Lars B. Dybdahl Guest Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2003 8:47 pm    Post subject: Re: GNU gettext question Leo Saguisag (Borland) wrote: Quote: Why don't you just use resourcestrings instead of going through the GNU gettext function? That would not change anything. Resourcestrings are translated the same way. 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