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Re: Preparing for internationalisation

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From: Petr Sulla
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:54
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On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 16:47:47 +0100, "Marc" <marcvanriet@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>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,
>...)

It is sufficient, when you run the Japanese version on Japanese
Windows 9x or W2000 with Japanese system locales.

>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
>??

No, it's perfectly ok to display Chinese from left to right.

Regards

		Petr Sulla
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