Internationalization for Flash Applications

Question

I am working with a flash application (non-flex) and I would like to support internationalization. Flex has a nice ResourceManager abstraction in which you provide resource packages for each locale. Is there an equivalent for actionscript?

Answer 1

How about a Globalization package from AS Foundry?

Answer 2

Didn't use it myself, but this one looks interesting:

http://www.sephiroth.it/weblog/archives/2005/12/actionscript_30_first_attempt.php

It is based on the GNU implementation of gettext and the toolchain.

Answer 3

We created a small tool around gettext:

http://code.google.com/p/asgettext/

With this tool, you can easily create a multilingual application using the default internationalization tool.

Answer 4

As an additional note to the packages offered above, you may want to create and save all your language content in a database, and then generate resource package files. This way you can have a central interface for managing all of this, but still take advantage of the performance of resource packages.

Good luck