LiveCode Localization?

[Phil Davis]

Hi Kee,

I support a training development & delivery system that currently 
supports training in English, Spanish and Arabic. The training dev 
environment is English only, but the training content you can create 
with it can be in those other languages. When we added support for 
Arabic a couple of years ago, we switched from trying to maintain 
everything in custom properties and using a separate template stack for 
each language, to storing all language-specific settings (RTL vs LTR, 
etc) and default content in YAML files. Now we can easily add new 
languages with no changes needed to code (at least in theory - it seems 
to work out perfectly).

To add a new language, we clone an existing YAML file and translate it, 
and adjust the RTL/LTR training UI orientation settings as needed. Add 
the YAML file into the next build of the content editor and Bob's your 
uncle.

Best -
Phil Davis



On 3/16/19 1:17 PM, kee nethery via use-livecode wrote:
> Does anyone on this list have an app that you localize into other languages (French, German, Japanese, etc)?
>
> If so, I’d like to ask you how you support localization. Want to see if there is a common method since LiveCode does not support the techniques used by macOS, iOS, Android, Windows.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kee Nethery
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Phil Davis