Internationalisation II

[Igor de Oliveira Couto]

Dear Rev Friends,

A very big thank you to all Revolutionaries who replied to my previous 
posting, re: suggestions for approaches to internationalising apps. 
Your information has been most useful, and has sent me back to the 
drawing board!

I just had a quick look at Apple's Developer site, which has a special 
section on 'localisation on MacOS X':

http://developer.apple.com/intl/localization.html

Apple suggests the use of a FREE Apple-made software package called 
'AppleGlot' - currently in version 3. It supposedly translates all 
string text in a certain application from one language to another, 
using provided glossaries.

Of special interest to all developers, is the fact that these 
glossaries seem to be in PLAIN TEXT FORMAT - meaning that Apple is 
providing us with FREE, standardised translations between English and 
several other languages for most of the user interface items.

Just out of curiosity, I downloaded the glossaries for Spanish. In 
total, there were 83 text files: a main one - with translations for 
almost ALL of the Finder's interface elements, dialogue boxes and 
warning messages - and many other files which seem to contain 
translations for strings related to specific programs/system 
preferences which are bundled with MacOS X, such as the 'Color Picker' 
or 'System Profiler'.

Apple provides freely downloadable glossaries for the following 
languages: Spanish, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Finnish, 
Norwegian, Swedish, Korean, Japanese, as well as both Simplified and 
Traditional Chinese.

AppleGlot 3 apparently helps translate not only Cocoa applications, but 
also Carbon ones. How it goes about doing that, I do not quite 
understand. I think it translates the .nib files in the Resources 
folder of Cocoa applications, and (my guess only) text/string resources 
in Carbon apps - I doubt it would look into the data fork... I do, 
therefore, have a couple of new questions:

1) Are the apps compiled by Revolution 2.0 Carbon or Cocoa?

And most importantly:

2) Has anyone tried using AppleGlot to 'translate' a Revolution-made 
app? If so, what were the results? Was it a useful tool?

Once again, many thanks, and


Kind Regards,


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Igor de Oliveira Couto
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igor at pixelmedia.com.au
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