Re: [Slashcode-general] Solidot.org launches Chinese Slashdot Website on latest i18n Slashcode

[shane <sh...@lo...>]

On Jul 4, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Jesse Lee wrote:

> Thanks for your replies.
>
> There are some changes, But we haven't sorted them out. Also the  
> Chinese theme hasn't been finished yet.
> We've planed to release a UTF-8 Chinese Version of Slash. Lots of  
> things to do, except above mentioned, there are some documentations  
> such as Chinese install guide, Chinese FAQ, etc.
> When we are done these, we will post the code changes and other  
> stuff to this list and Slashcode.com.
>
> Please give us some time.
>
> Jesse
> On 7/3/06, Jamie McCarthy < ja...@mc...> wrote:
> jes...@gm... (Jesse Lee) writes:
>
> > Original slash doesn't support other languages other than
> > English, especially some codes of East Asian Languages such as
> > Chinese and Japanese. We don't think i18n/l10n is on you guys'
> > development agenda. We have modified code, now slash can natively
> > run on UTF8 based Chinese language environment without problem.
>
> No, it hasn't been on our agenda, unfortunately.  I'm very
> interested in incorporating your changes back into our code if it
> can be done without turning things upside down for us.  If so,
> that might make future upgrades for you go more smoothly.
>
> > When we finish, we would like to let developers at slashcode.com
> > know. You are welcome to include this utf8 Simplified Chinese
> > language packs and database files in your future releases.
>
> Please do let us know (on this mailing list, if you like).  And
> congratulations on getting it all working.
> --
>   Jamie McCarthy
> http://mccarthy.vg/
>    ja...@mc...


Did you by chance attempt to make use of the "language" field within  
the templates?

ie

__lang__
en_US


I'm also curious as to how you handled the form submission buttons.  
Some of them, if memory serves, are hard-coded-ops.

Congrats on the work!

  Shane