Talk:EiffelStudio Internationalization

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--Patrickr 17:31, 9 November 2006 (CET)

The location for the mo files should be setup in the environment library, on Unix those files go under 

/usr/share/locale

e.g. 

/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/eiffelstudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/eiffelstudio.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_CH/LC_MESSAGES/eiffelstudio.mo

--Juliant 19:53, 10 November 2006 (CET)

Is it really necessary that the language can be changed while running EiffelStudio? I would say this is set once (even during installation). It wouldn't be a problem to just restart EiffelStudio. 

What are the advantages of putting mo files under /usr/share/locale? mo files are not shared between applications and normally users do not need to change mo files.
All mo files are put in ES installation directory, we only need to store the locale id as a preference.
More over, mo files are implemented to be accepted by the library only with names of locale id.

We need to decide whether the language can be switched at runtime. Of course, not doing this as most applications definitely reduces a lot of time.

Larry test

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