National language support system without external files
CA 1290457 C · Owner: Redpath, Richard · Inventors: Redpath, Richard
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A method for supplying in a target language, lingual, messages used in an application program comprises the, steps of (a) representing each lingual message in the application program by a footprint identifier and an allocated space; (b) storing, in a language file lingual, messages in the target language in a prescribed sequence; and (c) writing lingual messages from the language file for the target language into the application program including the steps of: (i) where each stored lingual message corresponds to a distinct footprint identifier searching in the application program for all footprint identifiers one after another in the same sequence as the corresponding lingual messages are …
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- Granted October 8, 1991. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended October 8, 2008.
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