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From: Steve R Billings
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 1994 16:08

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Has anyone developed or seen a mechanism to generate
message catalogs/resources for Windows and Unix
from a single source?

We have a software package that runs as follows:

    Server:         Unix
    Clients:        Unix and Windows

Both clients must be internationalized, so both must
read messages from a message catalog (or resource file)
which come in multiple languages (language selected
at runtime, preferably).

We want to provide:

    1. An english "source" message file for translation
    2. Tools to convert the translated file into the
    form that makes the most sense for each type of
    client, probably:

        A POSIX msg ctlg for Unix clients
        A Windows resource file for Windows clients

All advice greatly appreciated!

Steve Billings
srb@world.std.com

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