Tony Janke a �crit :

> 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?

I can tell you about my own experience: I ship 3 different PRC's because it's 
unlikely people need several linguistic versions at the same time (PDA's tend
to be more personal than PC's) and using overlays require OS 3.5 while I 
support PalmOS down to version 3.0. I maintain 3 resource files (forms, strings,
help text, alerts, etc.) under Constructor and thus produce 3 targets under 
CodeWarrior. I also maintain 3 HTML manuals with proper screenshots and I write
trilingual posts on my mailing list to warn of new versions. No text string 
appears in the source code, even StrPrintF templates, everything is in the
resource file.

It's a lot of work; I suggest you find someone to do the initial resource, 
manual and Web page translation. You'll find it's enough work just to maintain
everything over time and new versions afterwards.


--
Luc Le Blanc

http://www.speleo.qc.ca/Auriga



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