> Hi,
>
> I'm considering producing globalised versions of a product - German, French,
> Spanish, Italian etc. However the application was not originally built with
> this in mind, so it will involve extra work (on top of the translation
> work).
>
> I'd like to know if this is considered worthwhile? Have products with
> alternative languages received enough extra sales to make it worth the
> effort?
at PalmSource London, David Fedor discussed the use of overlays
to implement localization of applications on the palm pilot. the
idea itself is interesting, however there was one major drawback.
from what i understood, you MUST be running the "language version"
of the os in order to see the overlay in action. the selection of
the overlay depends solely on the language being used by the os
itself.
this would mean that a french overlay would not be available when
using an english rom. the idea of the overlay itself is a very
impressive one if i must say myself.
for a contract i am working on, i am going to develop a similar
system that will work like the Internationalization of Java
applications on the desktop.
basically it will require writing an API similar to the overlay
API but use it to access a .PDB file (containing language sensitive
information) depending on the localizatoin the user has selected.
the idea presented in Java would be really great to port over to
the Palm Pilot. i thought the concept was done with overlays,
however it does not support locals fully.. there should be a
difference between english if you are in the US or if you are
in UK or even AU :P
is any one interested in this?
cheers.
az.
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