Delphi app internationalization and localization

Delphi is a general-purpose programming language and a software product that uses the Delphi dialect of the Object Pascal programming language and provides an integrated development environment (IDE) for rapid application development of desktop, mobile, web, and console software, currently developed and maintained by Embarcadero Technologies.

🔗Delphi applications are usually translated these file formats

🔗Best way to localize Delphi apps

The first step is to extract the text to translate into language files. This process is called internationalization. The library http://dxgettext.po.dk can be used to extract out the text to translate into Gettext .po files.

Once you have internationalized your Delphi app, use a translation software localization tool such as WebTranslateIt to manage your localization workflow.

It is easy to translate a Delphi app with WebTranslateIt. Create a project, upload your source language file in the File Manager and translate it on the Translation Interface.

The tools included in WebTranslateIt, such as Batch Operations, the Translation Memory or Machine Translation can help you translate that file automatically, faster and cost effectively.

🔗Links of interest

• WebTranslateIt’s CLI to help sync language files.
• http://dxgettext.po.dk i18n library to support Gettext .po files in Delphi