Re: Internationalisation suggestion [message #1394 is a reply to message #1390] |
Tue, 01 July 2008 05:29 |
AJM
Messages: 2367 Registered: April 2006 Location: Surrey, UK
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Quote: | In this scenario: you have you application finished, full of transactions etc, now you client asks you to change the title of a column, as it is right now you should have to deal with a lot of files and I'm sure you will forget some. With my suggestion you just go to the dictionary, change the label and that's it.
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If you have a separate entry in your database for each language then changing the label text for a column will still require a separate update for each language.
In my design each subsystem has a single text file for each language containing the text for everything - task titles, column labels, menu buttons, navigation buttons and error messages - so to change the label for a column still requires one update per language. There is no saving with your method.
Tony Marston
http://www.tonymarston.net
http://www.radicore.org
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