Re: internationalization (message

>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?


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NAGAYASU Satoshi <snaga@snaga.org>