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- Subject: Re: Internationalisation
- Message-ID: <2fAcKhj020n@bridge.welly.gen.nz>
- From: julian@bridge.welly.gen.nz (Julian Wright)
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:24:55 +1200
- Reply-To: wright_j@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz (Julian Wright)
- References: <1992Sep1.034413.19776@maths.tcd.ie>
- Organization: USS Enterprise, NCC 1701a
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- merlin@maths.tcd.ie (Merlin Hughes) writes:
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- > If we are to have support for multiple languages in a certain
- > forthcoming product, what should we use to determine the country?
- [...]
- > 2) Defaults to configured country. This can again be changed, by
- > selecting the aformentioned option.
-
- Definately this option. This is exactly the sort of thing that country
- configuration is for, and means that your application will
- automatically start up using the correct language file.
-
- > Then, what languages should we support?
-
- English, for starters. Other than that, personally, I am not too
- concerned. :-)
-
- You could make it user-extendable by using something like MessageTrans
- though and allow people to add their own message files...
-
- Cheers, Julian.
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