Hi, Steve:

I have the good fortune of not having to deal with a legacy application. I am in the beginning stage of developing the application that needs to be in Spanish as well as English. You will most likely be hearing from me in a couple of weeks. (I am on a "working" retreat in Corpus Christi, TX for awhile - fishing included).

Thanks.

>Hi Mark,
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>Your mileage will vary with INTL depending on how you are currently structured. INTL retrofits logically and straightforwardly into almost anything pre-existing, but if your code has many hard-coded strings, then it may take awhile to expunge them. For example, the line
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> WAIT WINDOW "Young man, give me that knife!"
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>...needs to br transformed -- no way to avoid it. It becomes either
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> WAIT WINDOW I( "Young man, give me that knife!") && I() function call
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>.. or ..
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> MsgSvc( "Crazed Teenager") && Indirection.
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>Here Crazed Teenager serves as a locator in a specification table for the message "Young man..."
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>Anyhow, two nice utilities are GOTCHAS.ZIP (audits your application for international bo-bos), and MSGSVC.ZIP (for table-driven messages) are in the public domain, and you can use them right now to put you in excellent shape for any future internationalization.
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>All that's in my website under "Downloads"....