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Translation Dictionary

Translation dictionary stores translations for words and phrases from/into different languages. The more you populate this dictionary, the more it is helpful while translating your application into the target language. At translation time it uses the word/phrase to find a correct match, otherwise it tries to find out on the partial match and prompts you. This dictionary 'xldictionary' is maintained in SQL AnyWhere database 'PBELDICT.DB' and has the following schema:

All columns are of string data type. The columns 'language_from' and 'language_to' contains the language suffixes. For example, you may want to use 'F' for French, 'G' for German etc. as the suffix to the translated objects ( w_login_f, w_login_g, etc.). For some reason if you would like to use another database to keep the dictionary, you can use a data pipeline object to copy the dictionary to the target database and change the entries in the [DB] section in the XLUTIL.INI file to point to the new database.