Hi :) There is a separate mailing list which might be able to offer suggestions. Our mailing list for international translators and co-ordinating between the different languages is
[email protected] (lower and upper-case don't matter = it's just to help human readers make more sense of it) Regards from Tom :) On 13 August 2014 07:09, Werner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 8/13/2014 1:18, Paul wrote: > >> Hi Mark, >> > > ... > > >> Normally, localization is done by having a plain text file with all the >> application strings in it, and this file is simply copied and each >> string translated for each different language. Then at run time the >> application knows which locale it is in, and looks in the appropriate >> file for all the translated application strings. But they can just as >> easily be stored in the database, though. >> >> I18N (Internationalizing) for user interface labels is relatively easily > done in most languages, one way is to use gettext which is supported by a > lot of programming languages. > > Doing I18N for database tables is another story, a few years ago I looked > around for support of I18N support for database tables and at the time I > didn't find any, have you found one? The storing of the I18N data is > relatively easy, but how to access that from the application depending on > user login in and how to fall back to a base language in case a value is > not translated is not that easy (at least in my view:)). > > > Werner > > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
