OpenEuphoria

Re: locale support?

• Posted by Bernie Ryan <xotron at blue?ro?.com> May 05, 2008
• 716 views

Jeremy Cowgar wrote:
> 
> Bernie Ryan wrote:
> > 
> > You only need two strings for the English language standard library.
> > One for Windows and  one for Linux.
> > Your standard libraries are only good for english.
> > If a user is using MS windows in a different language then your
> > complete standard library will have to be translated.
> >
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean? The standard libraries will work in many, many
> languages.
> Some languages might might have to use UTF-8 or possibly UTF-16 encoding, but
> it should not be a big deal.
> 
> What do you mean they will only work in English?
> 
> --


Jeremy:

What about error messages, text in sequences, function/procedure names ?

That is why Windows uses resource files they contain string tables

that are compiled for different languages.

Look at Igor's site:

http://www.rapideuphoria.com/russian/index_r.htm

Which is not in English.

Bernie

My files in archive:
WMOTOR, XMOTOR, W32ENGIN, MIXEDLIB, EU_ENGIN, WIN32ERU, WIN32API 

Can be downloaded here:
http://www.rapideuphoria.com/cgi-bin/asearch.exu?dos=on&win=on&lnx=on&gen=on&keywords=bernie+ryan