[fpc-devel] Unicode support (yet again)

[Dimitri Smits]

----- "Graeme Geldenhuys" <graemeg.lists at gmail.com> schreef:

> Why? We simply hired average people (not programmers) to translate
> your English resource strings into German, Portuguese, French etc..
> No
> other modifications where required. No code or programs had to be
> recompiled. Our resource strings are stored in external .po file that
> ship with our application.
> 

Graeme,

while I concur with your first part as a way to go, it is maybe "not-so-average" people (linguists/interpreters), but other than that I agree.

Although there is a whole lot more involved with multilingual apps than that in my experience. Sometimes a form is to be redesigned slightly/heavily due to real-estate and constraints (either by system like screen resolution; or directly on demand by the client).

That is why I never really grasped the whole .po stuff as in my experience that is not always enough.

but I digress...

kind regards,
Dimitri Smits