[lazarus] Localization site

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Michal Bukovjan wrote:

> Mattias Gaertner wrote:
>
> >>I've made a temporary
> >>hack - moving initialization to a proc - in idecomp. But it would be a
> >>good idea to load all internationalization not from constrctor, but from a
> >>unit initialization, which must not be the last in unit lists.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >It doesn't matter for the IDE. The IDE should support language switching at runtime. Of course this needs Translate procs for every dialog.
> >
> >
> I wouldn't recommend this. Sounds like a lot of work. IMHO, on Unix this
> should be handled by LC_ALL (and similar) environment variables. If
> someone wants always a different language just for this application, he
> can always start it like this:
>
> export LC_ALL=cs_CZ; ./lazarus
>
> i.e., I recommend no explicit language switching inside IDE. Of course,
> I assume that FPC has some means of runtime resourcestring substitution
> from compiled .po files like other gettext (C) programs under Linux have?

Yes. we support gettext.

Michael.