All of the resource problems we list here are in RESDLL.DLL. There
may be similar issues in other files, but fairly few of them.
| Crucial Issue |
Items Affected in RESDLL.DLL |
Type of Misbehavior |
| Note the use of one or more backtick characters (ASCII 96
= `) and apostrophes (ASCII 39 = ') instead of regular quotes. You MUST
follow this convention. |
STRINGTABLE22151, STRINGTABLE22402, STRINGTABLE22404,
STRINGTABLE22584, STRINGTABLE22585, STRINGTABLE22587, STRINGTABLE22588,
STRINGTABLE23147, STRINGTABLE23148, STRINGTABLE23150, STRINGTABLE64355,
STRINGTABLE64356, STRINGTABLE64387, STRINGTABLE64388, STRINGTABLE6576,
STRINGTABLE6577, STRINGTABLE6597, STRINGTABLE6679, STRINGTABLE6747, STRINGTABLE22114 |
In many places, this error can cause Navigator to generate
bad JavaScript, removing functionality or even crashing the product |
| Only translate "< < Remove" (the <
is the named entity for the left angle bracket ("<") |
STRINGTABLE22959 |
Potential for generating bad HTML |
| Only translate the URL portion, not 'Channel_Finder.' |
ALL_PREFSRCDATAnetcaster.containers.container1 |
Unknown [Can anyone tell me? --RMT] |
| Only translate the word "Back", leave the named entity <
this string must match STRINGTABLE30233 |
STRINGTABLE30226 |
Loss of functionality; the button won't work. |
| Only translate the word "Next", leave the named entity >
this string must match STRINGTABLE30232 |
STRINGTABLE30225 |
Loss of functionality; the button won't work. |
| Replace iso-8859-1 with sjis for Japanese, euc-kr for Korean,
gb for Simplified Chinese, Big5 for Traditional Chinese, iso8859-2 for
Latin 2 languages. |
ALL_PREFSRCDATAintl.accept_charsets |
You want the localized versions to try the correct encoding
first; leaving this as is may force the user to select the encoding manually,
which would be a pain. |
| The size of the "Subscribe" button in this dialog must also
be able to accomodate the length of the word "Unsubscribe" (probably taken
from STRINGTABLE22444). |
DIALOG1381Item5, DIALOG1382Item8, DIALOG1383Item3 |
Clipped strings in these dialogs. |
| This appears in the mail compose window; it is part of the
drop down list of possible addressees for your message. The first letter
in this string is used as an accelerator; no matter how you localize this
string, you must specify the letter to be used as the accelerator as the
first character in this string (even for dbcs). |
STRINGTABLE759, STRINGTABLE760, STRINGTABLE761, STRINGTABLE762,
STRINGTABLE763, STRINGTABLE764 |
If you don't follow this convention, you won't have pickletters
for these commands. Note you CAN use the usual & notation to get a
pickletter, and it will be underlined. |
| This appears in the main Communicator menu when you view
a page with frames. Select the pick letter so it doesn't conflict with
the other menu items. |
STRINGTABLE62184 |
Pick-letter conflicts |
| This appears under the File menu. It needs a pickletter. |
STRINGTABLE62181 |
Pick-letter conflicts |
| This determines the default value of the ACCEPT_LANG property
of the META tag. You can see this value by choosing Edit | Preferences,
select Navigator | Language; the default value will be the 2 letter ISO
Language code value you supply here. |
ALL_PREFSRCDATAintl.accept_languages |
Inappropriate preference for encoding when sites support
multiple languages. |
| This determines the maximum number of characters a personal
toolbar button title can contain. You may not need to change this, but
it's there if you do. |
ALL_PREFSRCDATAbrowser.personal_toolbar_button.max_chars |
String clipping, toolbar buttons may be unavailable. |
| This dialog sometimes gets corrupted. The symptom is that
when you try to download an unknown file type, instead of getting this
dialog, you get either an empty dialog with no explanatory text, or you
get an error message saying you've tried an unsupported operation. To fix
this, open the US dll and the localized dll in MSDEV, copy the localized
strings into the US dialog, then delete the dialog from the localized dll
and copy and paste the one from the US dll into the localized dll. |
DIALOG142 |
This is a MIME type dialog. The dialog will be mostly blank
when it is broken. DogTool should no longer do this, but if it does:
set the VISIBLE property in the static text fields using the MFC GUI. |
| This is the attach button's tooltip in the mail message
composer. |
STRINGTABLE774 |
Tooltip may be unavailable. |
| This is the status message displayed when you are searching
a directory for certificates.
Note: since this is Javascript, you cannot use single or double
quotes in this translation. If you need a quote or apostrophe, use a backtick
character ( ` ), or even better, use the named entity "'"
to get the single quote in a safe way. |
STRINGTABLE30456 |
Bad JavaScript could get generated, causing anything from
lost functionality or a crash. |
| These menu items are the top level "&Communicator" menu title
in a variety of menu resources. These all need to be localized exactly
the same (including the pick letter), and STRINGTABLE62524 must match all
of them exactly, including the pick-letter. |
MENU2ITEM8, MENU120ITEM32, MENU214ITEM46, MENU218ITEM66, MENU221ITEM43,
MENU224ITEM136, MENU231ITEM32, MENU1203ITEM40, MENU1255ITEM126, MENU1349ITEM10,
and MENU1377ITEM62
|
The Bookmarks submenu and Netcaster menu item in the Window menu will
fail to display if these top level menu items do not match STRINGTABLE62524 |
| These menu items (&Bookmarks) must exactly match STRINGTABLE62525,
including pickletter. |
MENU2ITEM17, MENU101ITEM140, MENU120ITEM41, MENU214ITEM54,
MENU221ITEM52, MENU224ITEM145, MENU231ITEM41, MENU1203ITEM49, MENU1255ITEM135,
MENU1349ITEM19, and MENU1377ITEM71 |
You won't be able to see the rest of the bookmarks after
the Guide section in the Communicator | Bookmarks menu if you get this
wrong. |
| These menu items ("&File Bookmark" in EN) must exactly
match STRINGTABLE62526, including pickletter. |
MENU2ITEM19, MENU101ITEM142, MENU120ITEM43, MENU214ITEM56,
MENU221ITEM54, MENU224ITEM147, MENU231ITEM43, MENU1203ITEM51, MENU1255ITEM137,
MENU1349ITEM21, and MENU1377ITEM73 |
You won't be able to file a bookmark in the Communicator
| Bookmarks | File Bookmark menu if you get this wrong. |
| These strings have the format "Status text\nTooltip text\nButton
Text". If you omit the third field , then the second field is used for
both button text and tooltip text; occasionally, the US version will omit
the third field , usually when the text in the button is self-explanatory).
If you need to abbreviate considerably, add tooltip text as the second
field. |
STRINGTABLE103, STRINGTABLE139, STRINGTABLE34135, STRINGTABLE34137,
STRINGTABLE32871, STRINGTABLE34521, STRINGTABLE42378, STRINGTABLE42427,
STRINGTABLE42448, STRINGTABLE42458, STRINGTABLE59405 |
Missing tooltips, or cryptic tooltips. Note that the US
string may only have two fields, but you may need three for your localized
version. |
| This is a file type list in a file open or save dialog.
Watch out for ID ONLY matches here, which can indicate we now support new
file types in a given version. |
STRINGTABLE62336, STRINGTABLE62337 |
Some file types will not appear in an Open File dialog. |
| The client determines what is its default encoding to use for many
purposes by looking at this setting in the STRINGTABLE, along with the
settings in the RC_DATA. |
STRINGTABLE62093
|
Japanese strings or Korean strings will render as Garbage in HTML dialogs. |
| This string should match the value used to translate STRINGTABLE42169
(but it's not critical if it doesn't). |
ALL_PREFSRCDATAeditor.color_scheme |
??????? |
| You only need to change this for non-LATIN1 languages. Use
the CSID Reference table to look up the appropriate value for other languages. |
ALL_PREFSRCDATAintl.character_set |
This sets the default Encoding for browsing and also for
UI components, this is a must for MBCS enablement.
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