How to support multiple languages on a microcontroller?

Question

I'm currently working on upgrading a product for the Chinese market. The target is a ARMTDMI7 with a QVGA display. Most resources I've located on the net are targeted at desktop or web programming rather than embedded devices.

• Can anyone suggest some tools and resources that might be useful?
• What are the best techniques for extracting literal strings and communicating with translators?

Answer 1

I suggest looking at EasyGUI but that depends on what graphics controller you use.

EasyGUI is a tool that simplifies design of user interfaces and comes with complete source code and driver for a varity of display controllers.

For localization you can use EasyTranslate that gives the translater a graphical representation of the interface. This lets the translator see how the translated texts fit on the screen.

EasyGUI is available with unicode support aswell as right to left script.