BhashaIndia.com :: Multilingual Application Development

BhashaIndia.com :: Multilingual Application Development: "Adding multi-language capabilities other than English should be done from ground up. All the code that represents the language to the user (buttons, menus, prompts, help, text, dialog-boxes, etc.) must be found and altered to support language independence. This problem multiplies exponentially when you deal with applications that have hundreds of thousands lines of code, which have been created over the time and modified constantly by different developers. Hard-coding the language dependent text makes it extremely complex the process of adding multilingual capability for the program. One will have to develop individual application for every language he wants to support. Maintaining such a program is another headache."