Reusable multi-language support facility for software

摘要

A software system that includes text messages intended for viewing by a user, where the user can select at any time from various supported spoken languages, the language in which the text messages are to be provided, i.e. a multi-language software system. It includes: a software build, responsive to a specified language indicating the spoken language in which text messages are to be provided, and further responsive to a request for text messages on a particular topic, for providing a language-independent identifier corresponding to the requested text message along with the specified language, further responsive to a text message string in the specified language, the text message string corresponding to the identifier and to the specified language, for providing the text message string in the specified language to the user; and a text message system database, responsive to the identifier corresponding to the requested text message and to the specified language, for providing to the software build the text message string in the specified language. In another aspect of the invention, what is provided is a system and corresponding method for providing the multi-language software system.