Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!pr1me!ns
From: ns@pr1me.dk (Niels Sondergaard)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Localizing of English sources
Message-ID: <726@pr1me.dk>
Date: 15 Dec 88 00:29:58 GMT
Reply-To: ns@pr1me.dk (Niels Sondergaard(Sales Support))
Organization: Prime Computer A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark
Lines: 35

Hi There,

I'm a great user of Free software, mostly for personal use, but also
to give away to friends and customers. Usual I can live with my
programs talking english, so can the friends, but if I give away
some handy programs to end users they expect it to be in danish.

I don't expect anyone out there to make your programs speak my 
language, but I would like to encourage You to think that Your
program could end (and be used) in a country where the language
is not english.

I've found that most programmers "hardcode" texts in the programs,
(also here, which limits the programs VERY much), but with almost
no extra effort You can make "#define"'s in a header file, this would 
make life much more easy when localizing.

With a little more effort You could also help a lot on writing 
dates, so I wouldn't be confused if 8/9/88 is in August or September,
for all but Americans I think it would be i September, but who can 
know for sure. Here in Europe we also have a little problem with
the letters in the alphabet, so please don't make assumptions on 
use of special characters.


Exampel: Anders S|nderg}rd,      f|dt 8/9/82
(name and birth of my son, and |} is real letters)



-- 
 Med Venlig Hilsen (With Kind Regards)
 Niels S|ndergaard,
 Prime Computer A/S, Denmark.
 ns@pr1me.dk, {...}!mcvax!dkuug!pr1me!ns   or  ns@cph-d.Prime.COM