Otput for different languages

[Reinhard Pagitsch]

Hello,

I want to make my Win32 XS module ready for more than two languages. At
this time it supports german and english. To switch between these two
languages I use a function to get the language ID from the system and
then I use the correct string from a structure. But if I want to add
more languages (french, hungarian, taiwan, arabic, ... ) than I think to
use a structure would be a bad idea, isn't it?
What would be the best way to do this?

Creating include files with defines for each language? But how do I load
the correct one an runtime? Or have I to use language dll's which are
loaded at runtime? But how can I create and load this?

The structure I use:

static const struct
{
char *friendlyname_eng; //english
char *friendlyname_ger; /german
unsigned int id;
int docsummary; // 1 Document Summary 0 Summary Information
} SummaryInformation[] =
{
{ "Category", "Kategorie", PIDDSI_CATEGORY, 1 },
......
};

Thank you,
Reinhard

[Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan]

On Aug 12, Reinhard Pagitsch said:

> I want to make my Win32 XS module ready for more than two languages. At this
> time it supports german and english. To switch between these two languages I
> use a function to get the language ID from the system and then I use the
> correct string from a structure. But if I want to add more languages (french,
> hungarian, taiwan, arabic, ... ) than I think to use a structure would be a
> bad idea, isn't it?
> What would be the best way to do this?
>
> Creating include files with defines for each language? But how do I load the
> correct one an runtime? Or have I to use language dll's which are loaded at
> runtime? But how can I create and load this?

Perhaps you could ask for the language of choice in the process of 'make',
and then s/#include LANGUAGE STUB/#include "$file.h"/ in your XS file?

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[Reinhard Pagitsch]

Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
> On Aug 12, Reinhard Pagitsch said:
>
>> I want to make my Win32 XS module ready for more than two languages.
>> At this time it supports german and english. To switch between these
>> two languages I use a function to get the language ID from the system
>> and then I use the correct string from a structure. But if I want to
>> add more languages (french, hungarian, taiwan, arabic, ... ) than I
>> think to use a structure would be a bad idea, isn't it?
>> What would be the best way to do this?
>>
>> Creating include files with defines for each language? But how do I
>> load the correct one an runtime? Or have I to use language dll's which
>> are loaded at runtime? But how can I create and load this?
>
>
> Perhaps you could ask for the language of choice in the process of
> 'make', and then s/#include LANGUAGE STUB/#include "$file.h"/ in your XS
> file?
>

Not a good idea, because the module can be build as a ppm package. And
than all users which are downloading this having the same language as
the system where the module was build, e.g. arabic :)

regards,
Reinhard