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Top 7 Localization Tools for Delphi

By Zarko Gajic, About.com

Internationalize your Delphi applications, add international language support to existing and being developing Delphi projects.

1. Localizer

Allows you to include multilanguage support into your application written in Delphi and help you to make the translation of your program to other languages. Processes all string resources in your project: properties of components on the forms, resource string constants, VCL messages. Support for additional language(s) can be added without recompilation the project even by your end users.

2. TsiLang

TsiLang Components Suite includes a number of highly professional, easy-to-use VCL components, wizards and tools for building multilingual applications. On the one hand our product dramatically simplifies the entire process of globalization and on the other hand it allows you to provide your customers with elegant, user-friendly applications that can switch from one locale to another on-the-fly.

3. Interkodex

The Interkodex Multi-Language Component is designed to help software engineers easily translate their Delphi programs. Existing programs can be translated easily with the help of the IML Language File Editor. The IML Package consists of two parts; the IML Editor and the Component itself

4. Multilizer

A globalization technology solution for companies that develop software and find it expensive and time-consuming to produce international versions. Multilizer products localize Windows applications, Mobile and internet software and accompanying content, such as databases and XML. Automates time-consuming and error-prone phases of localization.

5. Helicon Translator

It uses Delphi’s native localization technology and generates localization libraries for all languages. Supports the translation of forms, resource strings, version resources, custom resources and so on. Keeps of the translations, so it’s not necessary to translate the whole project from scratch each time a modification has been made.

6. PolyGlot

PolyGlot Professional automates the internationalization AND localization of your applications at design or run-time. As a result, you can deliver non localized versions of your applications and have them translated by a third party. Or, deliver localized versions to your clients who can then customize them at run-time.

7. Sisulizer

The software works visually with HTML, and XML. Sisulizer can also grab text from text files and databases. You determine which Windows resources you want to localize, including icons, menus, dialog boxes, strings, accelerators, versions, and manifest resources. Sisulizer also operates in the mobile world.

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