Thread: internationalization (message translation)
Hi all, I'm new to pgAdmin, and I think it is very useful. Does anyone take care about internationalization? PostgreSQL is widely used in Japan, and translated messages(menu/dialogs/etc...) are very important for Japanese users. I think the GNU gettext is a simple and smart way for message catalogs. Does anyone know about message catalog mechanisms in VB? I'm not familiar with VB, but I can use message catalog mechanism and translate messages into Japanese. Any suggestion? -- NAGAYASU Satoshi <snaga@snaga.org>
Satoshi Nagayasu wrote: >Hi all, > >I'm new to pgAdmin, and I think it is very useful. > >Does anyone take care about internationalization? > >PostgreSQL is widely used in Japan, and translated >messages(menu/dialogs/etc...) are very important >for Japanese users. > >I think the GNU gettext is a simple and smart way for >message catalogs. > >Does anyone know about message catalog mechanisms in VB? > >I'm not familiar with VB, but I can use message catalog >mechanism and translate messages into Japanese. > >Any suggestion? > > >
> Does anyone take care about internationalization? Dear Satoshi, We tried hard to display Japanese characters in pgAdmin2, without success because VB does not support UTF-8 characters. If we cannot display Japanese characters, we are not going to be able to translate messages. Regards, Jean-Michel
>We tried hard to display Japanese characters in pgAdmin2, without success >because VB does not support UTF-8 characters. If we cannot display Japanese >characters, we are not going to be able to translate messages. Is a UTF-8 support necessary to display translated messages in single language (like French, or Japanese)? I know UTF-8 can handle and display several language charactorsets all at once, but I don't need it. I need just switching languages of all messages in display. I think it can be implemented as a message lookup mechanism. In the GNU gettext mechanism, gettext() function looks up a message catalog file (it is external resource file), and if a translated message is found, gettext() function returns a translated string. For example, gettext("Hello") returns "Konnichiwa" as Japanese charactor string, so | printf( gettext("Hello") ); prints | Konnichiwa in Japanese environment. This can be implemented under VB? -- NAGAYASU Satoshi <snaga@snaga.org>