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Subject: 
Re: Internationalization of the part library?
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Date: 
Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:39:54 GMT
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On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:35:15PM +0000, Kevin L. Clague wrote:
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.

Peeron/LDraw/Partsref <-> BL isn't simple, because the part numbers are
NOT consistant.  AFAIK, the only way to actually resolve that is to
build a proper translation table, which is what I think BrikTrak uses.

--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com



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  Re: Internationalization of the part library?
 
(...) 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, (...) (20 years ago, 1-Mar-05, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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