Re: [XBoard-devel] Re: Internationalization question

[A. Alper ATICI]

Hi Tim,

On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 11:41:24PM -0800, Tim Mann wrote:
[...]
> 
> I don't think you can do that in a week using WinBoard + GNU Chess,
> because (as Alper just explained on the mailing list), the
> internationalization support for WinBoard is not complete yet.  No one
> seems to know the right way to internationalize the strings that are in
> winboard.rc, and those make up a lot of the UI -- all the menu text and 
> 

Windows resource i18n is not a mystery, that's a known topic. 
What I emphasize on is the vagueness of achieving it using gettext. If 
everybody agrees 
on that, there seems to be two options for Winboard i18n:

1. Use gettext for c-strings; add localized resources for dialog boxes, menus 
and 
resource strings.

2. Transform every c-string into resource strings, add localized resources as 
above.


The first option segregates i18n effort. Translators will have to deal with 
both gettext 
po files and RC files. But it brings less burden on the developer.

The second option drops gettext, makes everything RC-based. This means less 
burden on
the translator, however it increases the burden on the developer. Using c-string
literals will simply be forbidden from there on, every string has to be a 
resource.


If a decision is made, then things will be clear for me.

regards,

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