
eCalc 2.0 - National Language Support




 Translate the program

All menu items, strings etc. are saved in external ascii files.
Feel free to translate such files to your language. You will find them in the sub directory

 ..\lang

The file name convention is

xx.dat

where xx are the first two chars of the language code defined in your system environment. If you don't know the language code of your system, just type "SET LANG" in an OS/2 window. It will show something like this:

LANG=de_DE_EURO

The first chars of the LANG value have to be used for the filename. The default extension must be 'dat', this can not be changed.

Attention: edit only the strings between the quotes! 

Insert a tilde (~) to make a character of a menu item to an ALT hotkey.





 Translate the documentation

Docuemntaion files must be also placed in sub directory ..\lang.

The file name convention is the similar to the DAT files, with the difference that another extension will be used. Use the first two chars of your language code for the filename. The extension depends on the file type. Currently INF and TXT files are supported by eCalc. Select the extension matching to your file type.

If your translate the en.txt to your language, e.g. to french, then name the file 'fr.txt'. If you want to create an INF file using the IPFC compiler, then use the name 'fr.inf'.

In eCalc you may call the documentation file from the help menu. First eCalc will try to open an 'inf' file, and if not available eCalc will look for a 'txt' file. If both files are not available, eCalc will open the 'en.txt', which should be always available.



Some translations are under construction, so please contact us via email so far you have time and delight to make a translation to your language.





The following translations have been already released (in alphabetical order):

de.dat / de.txt - german - by Andreas Kohl
en.dat / en.txt - english - by Frank Wochatz
es.dat - spanish - by Andreas Kohl
fr.dat / fr.txt - french - by Guillaume Gay
alternative fr.dat - modified by Andreas Kohl
nl.dat - dutch - by Jan van der Heide
sv.dat - swedish - by Bjrn Sderstrm


Thanks to all the translaters!


Frank Wochatz
Dec 2005