On Do, 2008-09-18 at 09:58 +0200, Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
there is no point in adding new resources in English to the other languages rc files. If a resource doesn't exist Win32 will automatically fail over to use the en_US version.
According to julliard a while ago, this is not the case. Strings for sure will not fallback, when a group is present, but incomplete. (The last digit of the resource-id is the index in the group) For dialogs, I'm not sure, how large the group is.
Actually its even detrimental to add the new resources as: a.) http://pf128.krakow.sdi.tpnet.pl/wine-transl/ cannot show those resources as untranslated.
That's a known missing feature
b.) The copied English resources have a tendency to bit-rot.
That's a known risk.
c.) The patch is smaller and offers the exact same functionality.
Smaller: Yes Same functionality: Not always