NewLC - Multilingual Application Development - Comments

No StringDB for Symbian

jpalten — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:47:07 +0100

StringDB is for .NET devel. Not Symbian.

Using UTF-8 for languages

Tili — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 10:54:09 +0100

I think it is worth mentioning here that for languages like Chinese and others with non-ASCII characters, the localisation files should be saved in UTF-8.
Windows adds a few characters at beginning of file to identify it as UTF-8 file and those characters should be removed as rcomp doesn't like it. It is better to edit the file in carbide/codewarrior and not using notepad/wordpad of windows. Moreover, the .loc file should have this statement for rcomp to treat the file as UTF-8.

CHARACTER_SET UTF8

I hope it saves time for others looking to localize applications.

Re: > Multilingual Application Development related to PRC

gehmlich — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:27:03 +0100

HI,

PRC stands for People Republic of China

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Carbon — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:42:47 +0200

in order to have multiple localized help files you only have to name them .h01, .h02, etc. in the system/help folder... the system will take care of displaying the right one depending on the phone language

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rahul — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:07:02 +0200

i m getting error while creating the sis file, Error is :

Processing Localization.pkg... Localization.pkg(23) : error: Expected quoted string read , Localization.pkg(23) : error: unexpected text

My pkg file is :

; ; Installation file for $$Root$$ application ; ;Languages &EN, ZH ; ; UID is the app's UID ; #"Localization", "Localization",(0x04F141C6),1,0,0 ; ;Supports Series 60 v 2.0 ;This line indicates that this installation is for the Series 60 platform v2.0 ;This line must appear _exactly_ as shown below in the sis file ;If this line is missing or incorrect, the sis file will not be able ;to be installed on Series 60 v2.0 platforms (0x101F7960), 0, 0, 0, "Series60ProductID", "Series60ProductID" ; ; Four files to install ; "C:\Symbian\7.0s\Series60_v21\Epoc32\release\armi\urel\Localization.app" -"!:\system\apps\Localization\Localization.app" "C:\Symbian\7.0s\Series60_v21\Epoc32\data\z\system\apps\Localization\Localization.rsc" , //THIS IS CAUSING ERROR "C:\Symbian\7.0s\Series60_v21\Epoc32\data\z\system\apps\Localization\Localization.r31" -"!:\system\apps\Localization\Localization.rsc" "C:\Symbian\7.0s\Series60_v21\Epoc32\data\z\system\apps\Localization\Localization_caption.rsc" -"!:\system\apps\Localization\Localization_caption.rsc" "C:\Symbian\7.0s\Series60_v21\Epoc32\data\z\system\apps\Localization\Localization.aif" -"!:\system\apps\Localization\Localization.aif"

plz let me know wht i m doing wrong.

> Multilingual Application Development related to PRC

Sochan — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 05:50:07 +0200

Hello,

Can you tell me in detail what is PRC code. What does PRC stand for? and How to creat it? Has it related to Unicode for the font?

Thanks your help. Best regards,

Sochan.

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cec — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 07:49:26 +0200

hey this StringDB is a better approach i think,

i just used 3 functions, and multi-language system is done! using MS Excel is also a plus fo rme.

pew, now i see that those long struggles for multi-language applications was a waste of time.

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ebtschi — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 10:17:16 +0200

just for the sake of a correct example: in german "How are you?" is "Wie geht es ihnen?" and "apples" is not Apfels, but "Ã„pfel"....

but i like the rest of the tutorial :-)

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Mike Walters — Sun, 26 Jun 2005 21:52:15 +0200

Hi Guys,

There is a simpler way to localize your software. It is called "StringDB". It is a binary resource file for strings that is generated directly from string tables in MS Excel sheets. It is simple to use and highly flexible for different platforms.

By using StringDB concept you don't need any other resource files for strings. No need to manipulate strings manually. And no need to recompile to change language package of the software.

You can find the trial software and documentation on the web site www.swbox.com.

Mike

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eric — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:43:54 +0200

Thanks :-) Actually I never had to deal with HLP files so I don't know how to do this. If someone has the answer and can write a short memo.....

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rapsage — Wed, 22 Jun 2005 11:37:36 +0200

Hi Eric, Very good article. But All the articles related to this subjects, ignores, HLP file creation for multiple languages. Can you please throw some light on this issue as how we can localize HLP files and add to the installer.

thanks

regards

rapsage

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rjsoft — Wed, 15 Jun 2005 06:54:13 +0200

Hi,

I am trying to follow this article however, the resource file does not compile. I cannot even see any error, just that when I try to make the SIS package, it cannot find the .rsc file.

As soon as I remove localization code, the app works fine.

If anyone can help it would be great.

Thanks!

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eric — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 01:43:07 +0100

Developing a multilingual application is rather simple with Symbian OS and this tutorial will show you to achieve this. Of course, it is always tempting to hardcode your strings. But with only a little effort you can have your application working in English and your native language...