.. _rc: .. _windows_rc: Windows RC files **************** .. versionadded:: 1.2 Windows .rc files, or resource files, are used to store translatable text, dialogs, menu, etc. for Windows applications. The format can be handled by the Translate Toolkit :doc:`/commands/rc2po` and po2rc. .. _rc#conformance: Conformance =========== The actual specification of .rc files is hard to come by. The parser was built using :wp:`WINE ` .rc files as a reference. This was done as WINE is a good target for .rc translations. We are confident though that the extraction will prove robust for all .rc files. .. _rc#useful_resource: Useful resource =============== * `RC converter `_ * `ReactOS translation instructions `_ .. _rc#supported_elements: Supported elements ================== * DIALOG, DIALOGEX: All translatables * MENU: POPUP, MENUITEM * STRINGTABLE * LANGUAGE: We only parse the first language tag, further LANGUAGE section are ignored .. _rc#bugs: Bugs ==== * There may be problems with very deeply nested MENU's * LANGUAGE elements cannot yet be updated in :doc:`po2rc ` (:issue:`Issue 360 <360>`)