[lgfaq] xmlphpvisualbasicfaq

zakk zakk at timedoctor.org
Tue May 7 05:51:42 EDT 2002


On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 05:37, Chunky Kibbles wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 05:26:44AM -0400, zakk wrote:
> > On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 05:00, Chunky Kibbles wrote:
> > > The word "descent" is multi-lingual when it's the name of the game.
> > > 
> > A very good point
> > > For such functionality, perhaps we need policies like "leave out
> > > the number of the game, eg, Descent instead of Descent3, and then rip
> > > out the numbers when doing a query"
> > > 
> > This isn't good however, you should always have a space after a name,
> > and before the iteration. Descent 3, Quake 3, Libelman 12, et cetera.
> > Besides, the _translator_ needs to decide what gets translated and what
> > doesn't. 
> 
> Hmmm. Assumption, there: why do you have a "translator"? Why try to
> make the php intelligent? Surely a dumb "does the author say this is
> english? then show it to the english guy" would be easier? Or is that
> what you mean?
> 
Have you read my gameplan?
http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/test/gameplan
I really want stuff like topicname-questionname-en.txt
where en is whatever two letter country code speaks whatever language,
seperating the languages.
> And as far as it goes, if you just heave out the numbers altogether
> for internal searching, then it removes a whole world of hurt...
> Although I'm not sure if that's entirely wholesome for when someone
> explicitly asks for quake3... blaggle. My brain hurts.
> 
> Gary (-;
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