yes just a side not being able to convert to other languages could really help RP to in some aspects. just something I thought of while reading your post. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronald Fenner" <abbadon@mac.com> To: <CIRCLE@post.queensu.ca> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 7:09 PM Subject: Re: [CIRCLE] speaking of strings... > On Monday, April 22, 2002, at 02:33 PM, Edward J Glamkowski wrote: > > > I know George and Jeremy will kill me for suggesting this, but... > > > > There's a lot of strings in the code - since so much of it is > > already outside the code (lib/text, world files, etc.), might it > > be worthwhile to do some resource compiler thing so the mud uses > > external stringtables? Completely eliminate all text in the code > > and use ID references, so when you want to print a string, you do > > something like: > > > > That way someone writing a mud in some other language (like > > Canadian, appearently :) can just edit one file for text strings > > and not have to sift through every line of every module... > > > you know that does sounds like a nice idea and with some sort of built > in string editor to the mud you could fix typos or rewrite the string > with out having to compile. > > if we wanted to be even more ambitious we could support unicode allowing > the mud to be converted to other languages like japanese though it might > require a special client to be able to send the larger character set not > sure how telnet works with larger character sets. > > also with a slight modification you could support multiple languages by > checking a language preference variable and then fetch the string from > the appropriate table though doing multiple languages in the world files > could be more difficult along with communication channels. > > Ron > > -- > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | > | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | > | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | > +---------------------------------------------------------------+ > -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | FAQ: http://qsilver.queensu.ca/~fletchra/Circle/list-faq.html | | Archives: http://post.queensu.ca/listserv/wwwarch/circle.html | | Newbie List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/circle-newbies/ | +---------------------------------------------------------------+
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