[SOLVED] Internationalization of an app
lazarus / 43-Android

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Alcatiz · 2023-08-27 10:26

Hi to all!

I've activated i18n in the project options, created a languages
subdirectory under jni and declared the DefaultTranslator unit in my
.lpr source file. But it seems that no .po file is created while
compiling. In theory at least button captions should be present in the
.po file.

Am I missing anything or is it simply impossible to internationalize
an app made through LAMW up to day with Lazarus' native i18n
capabilities ?

Thank you by advance

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Alcatiz · 2023-09-10 15:40

Well if I use resourcestrings, a regular .po file is created. So it
seems that Lazarus' i18n functionality doesn't manage any Android
components, unlike the LCL ones.

Solved for me.

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Alcatiz · 2023-09-10 16:00

It seems the DefaultTranslator unit isn't supported at all, so
internationalization with Lazarus' i18n is not possible.

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maurobio · 2023-09-22 18:36

Hi, @alcatiz!

I struggled with the same problem sometime ago, just the reach the
same conclusion yourself reached.

There are too many things in which LAMW just stops right off the mark
: it "almost" allows this, it "nearly" achieves that - and so on and
on and on...

Best regards,

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Mongkey · 2023-09-23 00:54

Did you guys ever use another android IDE ?  , like android studio or
even flutter, i think you guys seems going very hard to understand and
to code than this LAMW framework, if you are from pascal user before.
Even lazarus brother that come with huge money backed and marketing
support -> delphi has a lots things to fix, in my point of view.