Multiple languages without tons of global variables

[Bresacon]

Hi, everybody,

I'm trying to implement support for a couple of languages in a program, and maybe I'm being too obtuse but the only thing that occurs to me is having the same variables modified on a global scope whose content get chosen in a function that assigns a language or another according @OSLang. I bet there's something better than that.

Edited July 21, 2021 by Bresacon

[leuce]

 The first thing that sprung to mind after reading your query was "I wonder if there are GNU Gettext supports for AutoIt?", and with that search term in mind, I found this:

...but I can't vouch for it.
 

[water]

I have written something like this many years ago.
You create a file holding messages for each language.
In your script you call _MsgInit to read all messages into an array.
With _MsgGet you retrieve a single message and insert variable data into the message by replacing the & wildcard character.

The example script MsgTest.au3 uses an ini-File but you can set the language to use by @OSLang as well.

MSG.zip

[TheDcoder]

Going to chime in with my own version of a translation UDF inspired from the original "Gettext" UDF:

I think it is the most up to date one, so you don't have to worry about compatibility with the latest version. It is also the most simple one out there I think.

[Bresacon]

Great. Thanks everybody!