[Lazarus] language database

[Zaher Dirkey]

2011/2/21 ik <idokan at gmail.com>

> Hello,
>
> I'm thinking in starting to create a language database unit for Lazarus.
> The idea is to know as much as possible about all the needed features of a
> language.
>
> For example all the possible encoding for it (UTF7 [not the same as UTF-8
> and above],8,16,32,embdic, DOS code page etc...), The country(s) it is being
> used officially,
> Direction (Right To Left, Top To Down, Left To Right etc..), full name, ISO
> names, geographic places (Asia,middle east, far east, europe, latin america,
> usa, canada, africa, etc) and so on...
>
> This is not a hard work in developing but it is a lot of work do research
> all of this information and I wish to know if anyone will be interested in
> such unit, and if so will they be willing to give a hand for it ?
>
> Will you find such unit useful ?
> Please note that such unit will make your program bigger to use, but it
> will be one more step in the direction of supporting human languages better
> (I hope).
>
> Thanks,
>
>
You need it to detect the information of language, i think it have to be in
the translation file, while Lazarus use PO file, you can put a custom
property in the main language file.

I have doing that in my projects.

Zaher Dirkey
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