Well, support for the GUI anyway. Command line stuff is still going to be command line stuff. For that you want it to be english. ( Have you ever tried Chinese on the command line ? )

    I am supporting French and Traditional Chinese first, because those are two of the languages that I can read/write. ( Besides English of course. )

    I originally tried using .po files for translation. That was OK, but not great. It is the supported method for wxWidgets, but that does not mean it is a great method. .po files are based on gettext, and gettext is “sub optimal”. Feel free to translate “sub optimal” as ’sucks’.

    So today, I went with a dynamic translation engine. The translations are defined at runtime using a C++ class. What is special about defining translations at runtime ?

               Plugins.

    When you define plugins, without a run time engine, you cannot add translations without editing the translation file for the entire app. So here is an example, say you write a plugin to pull the 13 week range on an equity. In chinese (HK) , that would be 13週波幅. How many people would want to edit a .po file that would get overwritten by the next update of the software? No one of course.

    By moving the plugin translations to the plugin definition file, we can get UTF8 translations that will not get overwritten by new updates. Coolness.

   So it only took….not much time to get a Raydo building under windows.

   It was very easy, much easier than I expected. Usually you expect some complication to crop up. Fresh installs are so nice, and worked perfectly this time.

    One caveat, read the instructions!! After installing VC++ 8, you have to make some configuration changes when installing the platform SDK. It boggles the mind that they (they as in M$) could not make those changes transparent when installing. That would make it much easier.

    So I checked Raydo at of the svn repository. and hit build. It compiled straight out of the box. Always nice when that happens.

    I do not know if Windows will be as supported as much as Linux or OSX. Actually I do know. It will not be supported as much. The difference is now, if there is a question or problem on windows, I can at least debug.

Blah. I still hate windows.