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GNU Gettext for Delphi?

sounds really awesome!

GNU gettext ist a solution, however, I do not like the translation software of it very much. It is just not flexible enough for me. Mine is in development and I have full control over it and how I want to use it. This makes it very easy for me to adjust for new features.

If you have any suggestions, please, let me know ;)

My suggestion would be to use dxgettext as backend and adapt your translation software to the gettext file format (I do not like poEdit very much either). There are many things that can be done better, e.g. visual translations with something like a form designer.

However, if you want to create your own localization system, your solution should at least provide all features which are provided by dxgettext (embedded translations, change language at runtime, support for C++Builder etc. pp.).

Do you want to reveal some of the benefits of your system over dxgettext?

Well, in short, I wont either. I will not provide another front end for dxgettext, and I wont provide all features. And I don't think I have to ;-) Why, because it is growing with my needs, and those who request a special feature. The idea is to provide an easy to use solution and dxgettext is not, imo. With an easier use, some features are dropped. For now, there is no C++Builder support, but to support C++Builder, all files needed for translation are in the bundle as source code.

The idea of my solution is, that during development you don't have to think to much about translating everything. You can even create a multi-language project as an afterthought without much work.

You can change language during run-time, yes. This is one of the requirements I had for myself. I am not sure what you mean with embedded translations though.