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From: Marc
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 15:47

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Hi,

I'm starting out on a new application, and guess what... the customer would
like to have the ability to have Japanese and Chinese versions in the
not-so-distant future.
Luckily, there is little text to display.  It is sort of a graphics
manipulation program.

Is it sufficient to isolate all hard-coded text strings in a resource file
in order not to run into too many problems later on ? I understand that
there are some good tools that translate all the captions and so (like
www.multilizer.com, www.eldos.org, www.lingscape.com, www.sicomponents.com,
...)

In general, does changing to Japanese and Chinese require changing much of
the user interface ? E.g. is the Chinese text displayed from top to bottom
??

Any help would be appreciated,

Marc

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