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- Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!bwc
- From: bwc@waikato.ac.nz (Ug!)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Internationalisation
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.092357.10511@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 2 Sep 92 09:23:57 +1200
- References: <1992Sep1.034413.19776@maths.tcd.ie> <1992Sep1.073418.23713@cs.aukuni.ac.nz>
- Organization: Vooniersity fo Kaiwato
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- TMOTA writes:
- >Merlin Hughes writes:
- >
- >>If we are to have support for multiple languages in a certain
- >>forthcoming product, what should we use to determine the country?
- >>Then, what languages should we support? Due to limited resources
- >>we will only be able to support a subset of the global languages.
- >
- > Well, a good trick would be to use MsgTrans just like desktop app.s
- > so that you simply have a directory full of the text needed for various
- > languages... then a user who speaks swahili and English can translate
- > for themselves if no other translation is available...
-
- Perhaps you'd like to post some pointers on using MsgTrans: how do we use
- it, what SWI calls are available, etc? Maybe to comp.sys.acorn.tech?
-
- This would be very useful (I'm goinf through the same process myself).
-
- Ug!
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