Re: TEXT & COLHDG keyword in DDS

[PaulMmn <PaulMmn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>At 14:00 08/26/98 -0400, Denis Robitaille wrote:
>>Here is my problem: We support about 50 sites in north america, most of
>>them in the province of Quebec. When we were only in Quebec, it was
>>natural to use the french language for the TEXT and COLHDG. Now we need
>>to support both french and english because a good portion of our personel
>>speaks only one of the two. Is their a way to have alternate values for
>>the TEXT and COLHDG keyword?
>


Shooting strictly from the hip...

For display files, how 'bout 2 sets of DDS, creating 2 DDS libraries.  The
library list for the English-speaking users would include library 'ENGLISH'
and for French-speaking users, would include library 'FRENCH.'

This would require that all screens have enough space to handle both the
English and French text.  Data fields should not be a problem.

An alternative would be to make all descriptive text on the screen output
fields from a database file (containing all of the descriptive text).  In
this case, the database file would be overridden to use the appropriate
language file.

For data files, how 'bout 2 sets of logical files listing all of the fields
of the physical but with different TEXT and COLHDG?  This is awkward,
because you have to maintain all of the logicals every time you change a
field...

--Paul E Musselman
PaulMmn@ix.netcom.com


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