Hi Ted

A whole bunch of localizations (for most if not all European languages, as
well as Hebrew, Arabic, Turkish and more) is available from Paragon Software
(SHDD).

I can't give you the home page, but you might wish to check the following:

http://www.palmgear.com/software/answer.cfm?searchtitle=Applications%20by%20
Paragon%20Software%20%28SHDD%29

Or just goto www.palmgear.com and search for 'localization'.

But again, it ends up with language, not with language+country.

Michael




-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Trela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2002 2:32 AM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Locales


I browsed the system locales installed on the Palm,  and got these 5:
enEN, frFR, deDE, esES, itIT.

Given this, it only makes sense to generate overlays for these given
locales.   Yes you can create and distribute a localized overlays for
application for any locale you choose, however the existing overlay method
provides no mechanism to use any overlay other than the 5 indicated above
given the existance of only 5 OS locales.

Other solutions:

1.   Completely separate localized builds using separate localized .rsrc
files.  (possible and likely)
2.   Put all localization into one .rsrc file and programmatically select
the correct resources at run time.  (unlikely, lots of code change, big big
.rsrc and .prc, possibly a balky application)


"Michael Glickman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:72861@palm-dev-forum...
>
> Hi Ted
>
> As you can see, Locale Manager allows browsing current locales, but
doesn't
> allow adding a new one.
> This is probably because adding a new locale will require copying all
system
> ovly data bases, and there are plenty of those. Why PalmOS application
have
> frFR but not frCA ? Probably because there is a French version of PalmOS
> with locale frFR, and no PalmOS version with locale frCA.
>
> Actually frCA is not the only example: how about enAU or enUK ? Anyway I
> wouldn't agree with your conclusion: PlamOS engine allows distributing a
> localised application, this is just a 'mere' implementation problem.
>
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Trela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, 8 January 2002 5:03 AM
> To: Palm Developer Forum
> Subject: Locales
>
>
> A few questions about locales and localization
>
> 1.   I'm finding that via the 4.1 EFIGS Os, you can really only set the
> Language.  Regardless what I set the country to I always get the same
locale
> from OmGetCurrentLocale()   Example:  Select French language from the boot
> language screen always OmGetCurrentLocale always returns language: 1
> country: 7 no matter what country I specify   Is this true, or am I
> mistaking or missing something?
>
> 2.   Given the above, there is really no way to distribute a true
localized
> application via overlays?      In the French example only app_frFR.prc
will
> ever be loaded, even if I have distributed app_frFR.prc (french FRANCE)
and
> app_frCA.prc (french CANADA).
>
> I've noticed via rscredit that Palm only distributes  _enEN, _frFR,
deDE....
> overlays for their own applications.
>
> Ted.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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