[comp.databases] Brute Force Internationalization of Informix?

doug@ridley.coyote.trw.com (Doug Rudoff) (06/30/90)

I am working on project that was originally written in English and is
now being sold to non-English speaking countries. We use some Informix
sperform forms. The problem is that Informix does not have an
international version and the menus on the forms remain in English (as
well as the characters entered to chose a menu item) even if all the
field entries are translated into another language.

One way to have the menus and error messages appear in another
language is to alter the the file perf.iem which seems to define the
text for the forms and replace the English text with something else. I
haven't tried it yet, but I imagine with a little tweaking I can get
it to work. The problem remains in the interpreting of the characters
entered for the menu (like 'Q' for Query, 'U' for update, etc.). I'm
not sure where to change things for that to work (maybe even in the
sperform executable).

I admit this is quite kludgy, but I can't think of any better method
(given that I have to use Informix).

So, has anyone done this before, or have any suggestions, or have
access to the source code so they can tell me what to change?

Thanks


Douglas Rudoff

Mobile Data International, Bothell, WA
(206) 487-5937
rudoff@mdi.com or uunet!mdisea!rudoff
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Doug RUDOFF        Mobile Data International   Bothell, WA
rudoff@mdi.com, uunet!mdisea!rudoff
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