[mkupfer] 34247: - minor fixes for translation strings applied. - README for i18n issue added
Author: mkupfer Date: Wed Jul 2 02:34:37 2008 New Revision: 34247
URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=34247&view=rev Log: - minor fixes for translation strings applied. - README for i18n issue added
Added: branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/README (with props) Modified: branches/matthias-i18n/boot/bootdata/de_DE.inf branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/NET_NIC.inf branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/display.inf branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/msmouse.inf
Modified: branches/matthias-i18n/boot/bootdata/de_DE.inf URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/branches/matthias-i18n/boot/bootdata/de_D... ============================================================================== --- branches/matthias-i18n/boot/bootdata/de_DE.inf [iso-8859-1] (original) +++ branches/matthias-i18n/boot/bootdata/de_DE.inf [iso-8859-1] Wed Jul 2 02:34:37 2008 @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
; Country Codes
-HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\Country List\1","Name",0x00000000,"Vereinigte Staten von Amerika" +HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\Country List\1","Name",0x00000000,"Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\Country List\106","Name",0x00000000,"Britische Jungferninseln" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\Country List\107","Name",0x00000000,"Kanada" HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Telephony\Country List\109","Name",0x00000000,"Dominica"
Modified: branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/NET_NIC.inf URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/NET_NIC.... ============================================================================== --- branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/NET_NIC.inf [iso-8859-1] (original) +++ branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/NET_NIC.inf [iso-8859-1] Wed Jul 2 02:34:37 2008 @@ -29,5 +29,5 @@
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Added: branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/README URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/README?r... ============================================================================== --- branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/README (added) +++ branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/README [iso-8859-1] Wed Jul 2 02:34:37 2008 @@ -1,0 +1,53 @@ +Internationalization of INF-files: + +For internationalization of INF-files each [Strings]-section need a language +sepcific additional one. This section have the name [Strings.LanguageId] e.g. +[Strings.0407] for German. During setup dependent on the system language the +language dependent substitations will be applied and the result will be +stored in the registry. That's the way Microsoft described in MSDN: +http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms794543.aspx +The result is, that we have a system language, where all strings are +translated in best case. A fictional example: + +[a_inf_section] + +an_arbitrary_key = %value_1% + +[Strings] + +value_1 = "english version value_1" + +[Strings.0407] + +value_1 = "deutsche version value_1" + +All of the INF-files containting translated strings have to be encoded in +16 bit unicode (UTF-16) with byte order mark. +Remember, during installation we make one translated version and store that to +registry, all other versions provided in INF-file will discard. Due to this +fact, there is (at least) one question left: How to realize multiple system +languages simultanously in a Microsoft compatible manner? A suggestion is to +store all translations in registry. Let's assume we have a key (like in example +above) in registry: + +an_arbitrary_key = "english version value_1" + +Whether it's a translated or the english default one. For each other language +that comes with INF-file we create a new key in the Strings.LanguageID manner: + +an_arbitrary_key.0407 = "deutsche version value_1" + +In the hope Windows will ignore that additional keys, we can use it to handle +multiple languages at the same time with a default language as well not limited +to english. Additional to Windows we have to implement/modify the +registry-related functions to consider the language specific keys, but that's +a little effort and i think it doesn't lead into incompatibility. +To prevent a bloated registry we could modify that way and add the translated +strings to registry only if a user select new (still uninstalled) language. + +General issues of multiple (system) languages: + +We can translate the programm files and perhaps the registry entries in the +described above. But how to handle files/directories with translatabel names? +If we intend to have a (native) language for each user, so the directory +structure may become confusing and hard to handle correctly.
Propchange: branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/README ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ svn:eol-style = native
Modified: branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/display.inf URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/display.... ============================================================================== --- branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/display.inf [iso-8859-1] (original) +++ branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/display.inf [iso-8859-1] Wed Jul 2 02:34:37 2008 @@ -73,8 +73,8 @@
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Modified: branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/msmouse.inf URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/msmouse.... ============================================================================== --- branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/msmouse.inf [iso-8859-1] (original) +++ branches/matthias-i18n/media/inf/msmouse.inf [iso-8859-1] Wed Jul 2 02:34:37 2008 @@ -146,17 +146,17 @@
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