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List:       kde-edu-devel
Subject:    [kde-edu-devel] Re: still kdeedu
From:       Éric Bischoff <e.bischoff () noos ! fr>
Date:       2002-04-27 6:19:52
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On Friday 26 April 2002 08:40, Éric Bischoff wrote:
> > From a users perspective, it would be great to get a drop down list
>
> ktuberling now does this with a language selection menu.
>
> The structure of the XML file is basically like this :
> 	<language name="German">
> 		<sound name="Potato man">Kartoffelmann</sound>
> 		<sound name="Ear">Ohre</sound>
> 	</language>
> 	<language name="English">
> 		<sound name="Potato man">Potato man</sound>
> 		<sound name="Ear">Ear</sound>
> 	</language>
> (...)

There are many other ways to enable an application to propose other languages 
than the language of the GUI.

For example, you could split the hangman program into two programs:

- the first main program remains almost unchanged, and appears to the user as 
translated to his own language. For an Italian user, it's an Italian hangman.

- a small client program, hangman_client, just lists the words to guess on 
standard output If you call it by setting the language to "de" in its 
environment, it will list German words. This way, the Italian user can play 
and guess German words.

- both programs are translated through the regular po mechanism.

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