Hi Ritu,
"If you want to provide language support for you app but you don't want to use any of the localization techniques "
Does this means any standard technique is available for achieving this?
If yes please let me know what it is ?
The various techniques we've been telling you about recently.
One more thing is now simplified for me.Now requirment is
"The Application will automatically detect the language of the Palm device and display the appropriate localized text."
i.e. i can use the overlays technique for static text.
Great.
Still the problem persists for dynamic strings (I will get list of english string from the server, which needs to converted according to current locale.) Is their any standard Api available which can give me string version specific to the locale.
Uhm, no. Since Palm devices don't yet provide built-in machine translation.
Or if i can get some sample code to achieve this That will be help full to me.
This sounds like a general programming problem to me. But what I would do is:
a. Have a stable list of English strings in a resource (a string list, for example, if the list is short). Store this resource in your core app.
b. In each overlay, have a corresponding resource with the localized versions.
c. When you get a string from the server, look it up in the English list, and load the same indexed string from the overlay.
-- Ken -- Ken Krugler TransPac Software, Inc. <http://www.transpac.com> +1 530-470-9200
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