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I18N [message #1110]

Mon, 18 June 2007 10:36

Jones

Messages: 2
Registered: June 2007

Leecher

Hi,

seems like there is no real multilingual support in phpmybittorrent?

I am not only talking about the interface, I think it should be possible to have descriptions for torrents in multiple languages. if no text in [other] userpreferred language is available, default language is shown.

Have I overseen such a feature?

Is true multilingual support part of the design of this piece of software?

We are in 2007 and most software-developers should have learned, that it is a very basic requirement for internet software to support multiple languages, not as a "hacked-in extra" but as a basic part of the software design.

How do you think about this provocation?

Thanks for your attention.

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Re: I18N [message #1111 is a reply to message #1110]

Mon, 18 June 2007 11:53

joeroberts

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Registered: June 2006
Location: U.S.A

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Not sure that I follow what you are saying?

this software has multie lang. the users can select the language of ther choice.

The torrent descriptions are writen by the user not the software so needles to say that that is not to change able!

I am sorry for now that We dont have tomany people helping us out here in the language part Sad

and we are short on dev's to get that part up to 100%.

I have found that most of the software to interprit language lacks a lot to be desired I have used it to change some text from other langauges and I have to tell you I had to interprit it stell after that so I figured that its would be best to not try that route because then it realy would be a mess.

We do use a define() in order to allow for more languages so if you feel that you can or want to contribute by all meens please do so. You can find the true language in (root)/language/english.php

If I'm not understanding you please let me know.

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Re: I18N [message #1112 is a reply to message #1111]

Mon, 18 June 2007 12:04

Jones

Messages: 2
Registered: June 2007

Leecher

As I see there is only ONE description each torrent possible? It should be possible to users to write descriptions, title and other strings in other languages. If one user speaks other language, he should be able to use a "translate this description to your language" button maybe.

Search feature should of course be able to search only on specified language[s].

I was not talking about automagic translation.

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Re: I18N [message #1113 is a reply to message #1110]

Mon, 18 June 2007 14:31

lodp

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Registered: June 2006

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As I see there is only ONE description each torrent possible?

i must say i find it a bit funny the way you put this -- as if it were some obvious point that we had missed. it's not. that's why nobody has such a thing.

it would be a nice add-on to goof around maybe, but i'm pretty sure next to nobody would use it (both entering multiple-language descriptions, and translating existing ones). the thing is, wherever you go most content is language-specific anyway. and there's little point in providing multi-language descriptions to language-specific files. you know -- the german amazon for example doesn't provide german descriptions for english books on their german website, that just wouldn't make any sense.

what would be possible to implement though, i think, is to classify content according to language. and have an array of buttons on top to to make the index only show files in a particular language.

which reminds me of an idea i had once -- wiki descriptions. give the uploader the possibility to make his/her description open-source... i think that would be nice. could be restricted to premium users or something..

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