Re: How to create a simple multilingual GUI

[Andreas Stricker <andreas stricker fela ch>]

Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2007-05-14 20:43:42, schrieb David Ne?as (Yeti):
> > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 08:04:09PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > > Does
> > >         setlocale("LC_ALL", "de_DE");
> > >
> > > not work?
> > It works.  Future locale-dependent calls will use the new
> > locale.
> >
> > So if you do this while your application is already running,
> > you can watch it trasmuting slowly to German, with some parts
> > probably never getting there.
>
> AFAIK it is enough, if you reload all the Widgets...

It works only for the widget itself. Usually there is also
localized code in the program control flow like this:

if (condition)
    status_text = _("Condition is true");

If a branch like this is not executed again on reload or branch
into another part of the code, the language of the text stays
in the former language.

Cheers, Andy