Why can't my program compile under Windows 7 in French? [closed]

Answer 1

Seems you forgot to install the FrenChPP++ package. After a successful installation (you will need to compile FrenChPP++ on a standard c++ compiler if there are no binary packages for your system (we at the Unauthorized Frog recommend using g++ for this, but feel free to use clang too, but ignore the warnings)) you will need to create a new project, and just copy paste this into the newly created principal.fcpp file. Then upon execution the FrenChPP++ precompiler (which works very similarly to the way Qt handles its signals/slot mechanism) will parse all .fcpp files and will "translate" the .fcpp into valid .cpp and then compile them using your system default compiler.

Answer 2

You cannot use French keywords in a C++ (or C) program. You should code

 #include <iostream>
 //  ^^^  the english word "include" 

and likewise

 return EXIT_SUCCESS;

and of course code int main(int argc, char**argv) etc...

^{(thanks for your April fool's joke!)}

Answer 3

I realize this doesn't apply to this particular situation, but it's important to keep in mind the gender of your objects when programming in French. There are 2 types of classes (genre) genre::masculins and genre::féminin

For instance:

genre::masculins Hommes {}
genre::féminin Femme {}

Furthermore, when passing this to another function the function call is prefixed with the parameter list rather than suffixed:

genre::masculins Croissant {
    nul nourrir(Hommes hommes) {
        hommes.(ce)manger ;
    }
}

or

genre::féminin Grenouille {
    nul nourrir(Hommes hommes) {
        hommes.(cette)manger;
    }
}

For further reference: Wikipedia Word Order

Answer 4

Firstly, you need to

#inclure <clibstd>

before you're able to use SORTIE_SUCCÈS constant.

Another problem with your C++ code is that you've forgotten to use std::lend and instead used '\n' in your output string - it won't work in French code, obviously, only code written in English and Russian is allowed to do that.

Even more, you used wrong indentation (GCC on French requires tabs instead of spaces) and brace placement (you need to place braces on the same line whenever possible, no spaces between them allowed); keeping them unchanged will generate "vous ne connaissez pas votre tabulation, Jacques" and "pas assez d'amour entre accolades" runtime errors in your code.

After I changed those lines, the code successfully compiled. It still hasn't run, probably for the reasons specified here.

Snippet: http://ideone.fr/sQbL6E

Answer 5

Since Mr. George Bush banned French Fries in favour of the tastier Liberty Fries (and the less-tasty but equally patriotic Freedom Fries), other American corporations are also removing support for French in their products.

You need to use a pre-2003 compiler, or send a mail to http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments to ask if they plan to revert the situation soon.

Answer 6

Many problems are due to caching, but yours is one of the other kind of hard problems: naming things. Yes, localization is hard.

You didn't mention which variant of French you're using, but from the error message, I think you're using “French (France)” (what we users of civilized OSes call fr_FR). MS's fr_FR locale behaves in a very weird way: uppercase accented letters are mapped to their unaccented counterpart (for backward compatibility with some typewriter models). So you need to write SORTIE_SUCCES instead of SORTIE_SUCCÈS.

A workaround is to use the “French (Monaco)” (fr_MC) language, where uppercase accented letters work as expected. Unfortunately, the Monaco version of the compiler is very very expensive. You could also use the Canadian French, Belgian French or Swiss French version, but these all require that you submit a bilingual (fr_CA + en_CA), trilingual (fr_BE + nl_BE + de_BE) or quadrilingual (fr_CH + it_CH + de_CH + rm_CH) source file. African variants of French are out because they are too poor to afford a C++ compiler, however you could use C instead.

Then there are other syntax errors in your program:

• You forgot to translate some keywords.
• Beware that the compiler and the documentation don't always use the same translation for the same word.
• You didn't account for the fact that adjectives come after the noun in French.
• You're using the wrong type of quotes.

I wollun tried the following code in the C++ compiler included in Émaxe 51,70, and it wollun worked:

#inclure <fluxes>

principal ent(argn ent, argm **ent)  // entier, nombre d'arguments, valeur des arguments
{
   norme::sortiec << « Bonjour à tout le monde !\n » ;
   retourner SORTIE_SUCCÈS ;
}

Some languages have better internationalization support than C++. For example, here's a program in LOGO (not to be confused with LOGO of course).

pour exemple
  répète 18 [av 5 td 10]
  td 60
  répète 18 [av 5 td 10]
fin