Folks,

As mentioned, attached is a rough outline of how I think a decent
localization browser could work. First of all, file in *ONLY* the
LocalizationBrowser.cs (we'll come to the other later). Open a workspace and
let the fun begin:

* Let's create a new locale and install it

	"Create the locale"
	myLocale := Locale named: 'MyLanguage'.
	"Install it"
	myLocale install.
	"Print to see if it's installed"
	Locale current

* Open a localization browser

	LocalizationBrowser openBrowser.

It looks just like a regular browser. Now click on 'Kernel-Objects'. You'll
see that classes are highlighted differently. The encodings are:
* plain: No literal strings whatsoever.
* bold: Untranslated literal strings.
* italics: Translated literal strings.
* bold-italics: Both translated and untranslated strings
Now click on Object and get into #errorSubscriptBounds:
You will see that the error message is highlighted in red, meaning it is
unchanged from the default locale. Get in there and replace it with
something like (I'm doing it in German):

	'Index ueberschritten: '.

Accept it. Note that the string changes to blue, indicating that the string
is translated. (BTW, if you try to do *anything* but changing the string
you'll get an error message -- try it). Evaluate the following expression:

	#() at: 3.

You'll get some pretty appropriate error message. Please KEEP THE
PREDEBUG-WINDOW OPEN.

[The following is exclusively for G-ran ;-]
CMD-Click a number of times on the 'Proceed' string until you get down to
the string morph containing 'Proceed'. Click on the debug handle, and choose
the last entry saying 'localize contents'. Wait a little and a message set
with tons of messages containing 'Proceed' will pop up. Choose the first one
that has an exclusive literal string saying 'Proceed' (on my machine that's
Debugger>>optionalButtonPairs - note that for purposes of the demo it is
important that you do *NOT* change Debugger>>preDebugButtonQuads ;-) Change
that string into something like 'Weiter' and accept. Close the old
pre-debugger and evaluate again:

	#() at: 3.

You'll notice that the 'Proceed' button is still there although we changed
it someplace else. This is because changes are not automatically broadcast
(it just takes too long) so we have to do it explicitly. Evaluate:

	Locale current reInstall.

And now evaluate again:

	#() at: 3.

and now it's there. Okay, that way you can go through the system and
localize all its contents. From time to time you may want to reInstall your
locale to make sure you're seeing all the changes you did. For storing your
localized strings you can evaluate:

	Locale current storeStringTable.

Which will store all the localized strings in a compressed table (which you
can uncompress and hand-edit if you like; and that's specifically for
Richard ;-)

If you wish to switch back to the default locale just evaluate:

	Locale current unInstall.

and to see that this really works, let's just once more evaluate:

	#() at: 3.

and also that we can still switch back:

	(Locale named: 'MyLanguage') install.
	#() at: 3.

Now some more fun. Load the LocaleDeutsch.cs which is an example for a
locale that contains more than just strings. To install it evaluate:

	(Locale named: 'Deutsch') install.

and one of the fun things you can do now is to ask a questions like

	SmallInteger maxVal asWords.
	(Locale named: 'Deutsch') uninstall.
	SmallInteger maxVal asWords.

(heh, heh). Note that this is JUST A DEMO so spare yourself any complains
about all that stuff that's missing - I know it as least as well as you do
;-)

But comments are nevertheless appreciated.

Cheers,
  - Andreas
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