Tony Janke wrote:
I am writing an application that will be sold worldwide. What is the level of difficulty to have the GUI/interface translated into different languages?It depends on how you want to handle the various languages. Are you going to create one version with all languages built-in (BIG prc file)? Are you to use the english PRC file as the parent, and create a bunch of localized overlay files for each language? Or are you going to create a bunch of language specific prc files?
Whichever way you go about it, you'll have to look at anywhere in your code that you have hard-coded english text, and change that to something that can be dynamically redirected to the language specific code at compile/runtime. If you haven't already planned to do that, then you can be in for a considerable amount of re-write.
Further, how many languages do you speak fluently? Just kidding,.. but at best this might be 3. You will have to find some people to work with you, as volunteers or as contract employees, to do the traslations. If you structure your app correctly then you could leave much of this up to your users (thus volunteers), and have those who are interested translate your app into their language. That way, you could get some translations for free, and the users get a version of your app that is more comfortable for them.
Bob.
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