Is it not possible to create maco wrappers around the new api to
retain compatibility with the old? Sorry for my ignorance, I never
used FD-NLS libraries. I would think it should be seamless and
transparent. For me, the biggest change would be migrating data files.

On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 11:11 AM Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> > On Mar 21, 2022, at 1:27 PM, Mark Olesen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/
> >
> > Port then migrate your current translations to PO format
>
> That’s not going to happen. We can’t even find enough people to fix some 
> minor years-old bugs. Expecting someone to rewrite all of the programs, to 
> use a more complicated PO format as opposed to the native application NLS 
> format, will probably never happen.
>
> However assuming you read my entire previous post, you would have seen that I 
> do refer to PO files. When FD-NLS Desktop is finished, the underlaying code 
> could port the probably dozen or so different native formats to and from PO. 
> But at that point, you might as well use the application. It would probably 
> provide a better experience translating for DOS programs than the generic PO 
> based translations sites.
>
> :-)
>
> Jerome
>
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