translate big solution from "just default english" to "manylanguages"

[per9000]

We have a big application written without thought of supporting
multiple languages with lots of strings in a default "english". Now
the client wants to support any language (with a latin alphabet) and
we need to redo a lot.

I'm sort of thinking that we are not the first ones to end up in this
kind of situation and I'd like to know if there are any tested and
trusted ways of implementing a multi-language application.

Thanks,

Per 9000

 

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

Sorry to let you down hard but there is only one solution. Hard graft and
pain.

One method that Microsoft uses is to do localization into a language that
doesn't resemble anything remotely readable. If you can read any part of the
UI, it's not correctly localized.

You need to read up on satellite assemblies.

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