Re: English-French translation
From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:28:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1129217308.413912_at_yasure>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:28:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1129217308.413912_at_yasure>
ernest.dale_at_timet.com wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We will be embarking on a project next year to migrate an existing
> English-language Oracle Forms based application to French. Just
> looking for some ideas on development and/or implementation tools that
> may help us in the task.
>
> Thanks
To the greatest extent possible store strings inside the database and read them into the form before making it visible to the end-user. Only hard code that which absolutely must be hard coded. Use an environment variable to determine the language choice of the end-user.
Write once: Use many times.
Next year it will be Spanish, or German, or Italian, ....
-- Daniel A. Morgan http://www.psoug.org damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)Received on Thu Oct 13 2005 - 17:28:43 CEST