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- From: okrumnow@mcshh.Hanse.DE (Olaf Krumnow)
- Subject: Re: New Template format discussion document
- Organization: Point of Presence & MCS Hamburg
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:07:13 GMT
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- TMOTA wrote:
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- >Argh! What about simply specifying that the text held in the icon is a
- >messagetrans tag? Then the template-loading code can lookup the necessary
- >text from the specified language-dependant messages file.
-
- Just use the icon name as a tag to messagetrans.
- The text inside the Glass file should only be used as a default if
- no matching MessageTrans entry exist, or the Messages file got lost.
-
- John Tytgat wrote:
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- >(5) A last point what I would like to raise is that there is no support for
- >text (read : Indirected Data) in different languages.
- >
- >A solution for this could be different Indirected Data tables. IMHO this would
- >make the GLS_WIND chunk rather heavy. Therefore I suggest to define a new
- >chunk as :
- >GLS_DATA
- >========
- [chunk details deleted ]
-
- That's not the problem. See above.
- That's much easier to translate, as the guy doing it needs no more than
- a simple text editor.
- Together with ResFind (on NewCastle server) there could be an automatic
- language detection, adjusting the program to that language. No need to
- hold all language-dependent text for templates in the Glass file, and
- all other language-dependent text in another file.
-
- It would be fine if the Glass -> Template/Header generator would create
- a MessageTrans file as well.
-
- Olaf.
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