Multi-language support

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Britten <britten at caris.com> writes:

 Ian> Patrick Steele wrote:
 >> I have a wxWidgets program that has been in development for a
 >> couple of years now and we are considering creating a new release
 >> with multi-language support. My initial thought is to have an
 >> Excel spreadsheet containing a variable for each text string and
 >> then localised versions of that string. I am interested in any
 >> other approaches people have taken to solving this. Is there an
 >> existing or approved wxWidgets approach to this?

 Ian> I've used poEdit ( http://www.poedit.net/ ) a bit.  Works
 Ian> great...

Nice, I didn't realize that existed, and I need it.

The other part of the question is: how do you do the substitutions.
The answer (implied by what you said) is "GNU gettext".

All that is far more portable than Excel.

Which reminds me: where do the .mo files go in a Windows app?

      paul