Multilanguage Support

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Hi
what are good prooved techniques to provide a multiple language support
for applications?

I thoug about storing translations in a database which were load via a
wrapper which also caches translated values (due to performance issues)

Are there any other / better possibilities?
 
Hi

thanks for the links

The problem here is that the language depends on the language of the
device, but what if the user has an english device but wants the gui in
french ?

One thing I just looked at in your links is that it is possiible to
change the language for the whole device but i don't feel commfortable
with this. Or do I missunderstand something?


Thanks for the hints in advance!
 
You are not misunderstanding anything but it sounds like you can't handle
the truth :)

I'll restate the fact:
For your application to display in a certain language, that language must be
installed on the device AND that must be the currently selected language of
the device AND your app must (re)start after device language selection takes
place.

No doubt people have tried to work around the above fact but was it worth
it? My advice is don't fight it, just accept it and design for it.

Cheers
Daniel
 
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