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 > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
