On Thursday 08 September 2005 00:27, Marc Weustink wrote:
> A.J Venter wrote:
> > So nobody has an answer :(
> >
> > Oh well, I'll just redo them as TFunkyMemo's, that handles every language
> > I've thrown at it so far. Was hoping to avoid that though, it's a lot of
> > overtext for plain text.
>
> TBH, At first I had no clue of what your problem was.
>
> THere are only Lower ascii chars in you lang files or do they have some
> ISO encoding ?
> In the latter case, what is yout LANG setting ?
>
The files are plain text, but almost certainly not plain ASCII, after all they
contain other languages, thus far French, Afrikaans and Portoguese. They show
up perfectly in vim and also in ever graphical editor I've tried. The LANG
setting is probably on EN-US and would be a tricky one to change as the
language is supposed to be altered "live" by a selection during the
installer. My current design is simple, each language has all the message
files in a tarbal named after the language, I read all the file names and
show a drop down list, the user chooses, I extract his chosen selection and
and move on with the next dialog. The actuall installer is written in bash,
but I use lazarus created dialogs to ask questions, show menu's etc.
Simliar to using something like xmessage actually, but I get to make all the
dialogs look alike and follow the OpenLab GUI designs.
I'm open to suggestion here, though I'm getting close to my deadlines :( -
trouble is I couldn't even ASK for translations until all the messages were
finalized (for obvious reasons) so their the last thing to happen, and I
wasn't expecting difficulties.
Is there some way I can tell a TMemo to handle UTF-16 instead ? Possibly with
a fileheader ? I'm pretty sure there's nothing in there that can't be
displayed by UTF-16, it's not like I've had any translations to asian
languages.
A.J.
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