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- From: chiarito@cli.di.unipi.it (Rudi Chiarito)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Locale.library (was PageStream 3.0i Released)
- Date: 14 Mar 96 00:00:44 +0100
- Organization: Universita' di Pisa
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- >Locale was a great idea to make localization easier. Unfortunately,
- >it doesn't support all of the things PageStream requires. One example:
- >Locale requires that all strings in a program be in one string table.
- >We're getting ready to split PageStream into multiple string tables.
- >This will make Locale compatibility impossible. PageStream has too
- >many strings to make management of them in one string table practical,
- >so splitting it up into multiple string tables will make things easier
- >for us.
- UH?!?
- I suppose 'string table' means 'catalog file'.
- Well.. in that case NOTHING prevents an application from opening more than
- one catalog at a time.
- I once wrote a program which used translations from the system catalogs
- (ie. those in LOCALE:catalog/$LANGUAGE/Sys/). You could easily make
- different catalogs for each subsystem (for example: objects.catalog,
- text.catalog, menus.catalog, misc.catalog and so on).
- The only *VALID* reason not to implement locale support is lacking a
- font/string sensitive GUI (and that's what you also said). IMHO.
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