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Re: Internationalization of the part library?
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:35:15 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Larry Pieniazek wrote:
> In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
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> > It seems like there is general agreement that it would be a
> > good idea, if the LSC creates a standard for i18n in LDraw
> > parts names, so I will post a proposal to the LSC ASAP.
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> Thanks! Looking forward to it!
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> I sort of don't follow the subtlety of the issue with lookup (GNU gettext?), but
> it seems to me from the outside that the part number ought to be the lookup key
> rather than one version of the part name. At least, when I've done i18n stuff in
> my real job, (NLS, (National Language Support) we called it) we always had a
> code that was then replaced by a returned lookup value depending on the local
> language.
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> The parts files already have "one" replacement value in them, the text form of
> the part name, but that's not a good choice necessarily for an unambiguous key,
> nor is it as stable as the part number itself, right? (or is it... do names
> change as often as part numbers do? and even if they do not, are they the right
> key from a theoretical standpoint? part numbers are designed to be unambiguous,
> names are not necessarily so, although usually are)
From a technical perspective I agree with Larry that the part number looks like
the best key, and that the current part name is just one instance of an
international language set of names.
If we percieve peeron and and bricklink as countries, then we could also solve
the translation table lookup from LDraw to peeron (is there really an issue
here? I forget), or bricklink. Furthermore we should also be able to do the
reverse from bricklink to LDraw. Maybe even LDraw to LEGO for the part types we
know about.
Kevin
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