Re: Localization
Re: Localization
- Subject: Re: Localization
- From: Ondra Cada <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:51:06 +0200
Horst,
On 20.4.2006, at 10:25, Horst Hoesel wrote:
I do not recommend going without localized resources, however,
because even if your application will only ever be available in
one localization, it is likely to use localized resources from the
various frameworks installed on your system, and CFBundle/NSBundle
need to be able to determine what localization your application is
running in so as to be able to select those.
I don't have complete visibility here and might be completely
wrong, but the frameworks should choose localized resources based
on user settings, not on the language of the app. At least the most
prominent (Date & Time, number format, sort order, authentication)
seem to be handled that way.
The frameworks needs to know which language of the user-defined order
was chosen (supported) by the application.
Say, your language order is German, French, English. Then, if an app
supports all languages, it would choose German and framework objects
(which support all, too), should be in German. Another app though
supports English only; therefore, it uses an English GUI, and the
frameworks -- which still support all with the very same user
preferences -- should use English this time.
Otherwise, you would get an extremely ugly Windoze-like behaviour of,
say, German alerts in French GUI. In a decent environment, that is
not done (unless there really is no other way) :)
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Ondra Čada
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