Currently I am porting the component TMoon to Lazarus
(https://github.com/Ahoerstemeier/delphimoon). A goal is to be able to
compile package and demo with Lazarus AND Delphi. The original demo is a
multi-language application which achieves translation using resource
strings in a (I guess) Delphi1-like, windows-specific way. Using the
Lazarus system of po files really is very easy and much more versatile
compared to that.
But now I am faced with the problem how to bring this back into the
Delphi version. I know that the Lazarus translation system is based on
gnugettext. I can add the unit gnugettext to the Delphi project. But how
to continue? The original gnugettext requires the language to be
specified as the name of a subfolder between "locale" and "LC_MESSAGES"
(e.g., "locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/default.mo" for German), but Lazarus puts
the language code into the po/mo file name (e.g., "project.de.po"). And
I also don't get the point how to switch languages at runtime.
Does anybody have experience with a similar project? I mean: how to use
the po files for both Lazarus and Delphi.
BTW: Working with the i18n options again I noticed that there are now
two boxes "Excluded" > "Identifiers", "Originals" in the i18n project
options. What can be put in there? Which effect does it have? Does it
solve the issue that the same strings enter the po files again and again?
Werner
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