"Best practice" for localization

[Peter2]

Maybe I will release my tools in two or three languages - is there a kind of "Best practice" for this job?

[owenwengerd]

I don't have time to search at the moment, but there have been discussions about this in the past here on the forum. Someone even wrote a lisp library for runtime localization.

[Peter2]

Thanks, I will take a look (or maybe the author of this library reads this thread ..) ;)

[Fred Tomke]

Hi, Peter, in the past I worked for a company who solved that using a database: each column for a different language.
Otherwise you have a try with msg-files for each language.
In the meanwhile there shouldn't be any caption which cannot be set at runtime...

Regards, Fred

[Peter2]

Hi, Peter, in the past I worked for a company who solved that using a database: each column for a different language....

And then? The captions where read from database?

....In the meanwhile there shouldn't be any caption which cannot be set at runtime..

Yes, that sounds interesting.

[owenwengerd]

Here is the thread I mentioned earlier:
http://www.opendcl.com/forum/index.php?topic=1031.0

[Peter2]

Thank you. A very interesting tool.

[Slavko Ivanovic]

Thanks, I will take a look (or maybe the author of this library reads this thread ..) ;)

Yes im reading now.

Hello Peter, if you are try the LNGF demo and have any additional questions post it here, im available.

Regards
Slavko

[Peter2]

Hi Slavko

thanks for your offer. I already took a short look to the tool, I will continue here if I have more questions.