Re: localization with console application?

Hi Ian,

I want to develop a class library in C++ that provides non-GUI functionality.

Non-GUI is good, people waste a lot of time on GUI apps instead of separating the cross-platform standards-compliant back-end engine from the UI it will eventually be displayed in, preferably a W3C compliant web rendering surface that's runs on multiple platforms.

Error detection is implemented using exceptions and I would like the error messages to be supported in multiple languages.

There are a lot of options from Microsoft depending on the libraries you use with the app such as STL/MFC/ATL. I just had a look in the MSDN docs and if you search for either "internationalization" or "localization" you can get a lot of information (but most of it is for GUI apps). It's hard to comment further because there were so many options. One thing I have found works well with console apps is to stick to UNICODE, there are then functions that can adapt themselves (without recoding) to either UNICODE or ANSI just by changing a few #define's, you can use *.RC files for resources...

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Gerry Hickman (London UK)
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