Re: Ok, http://gperiodic.seul.org exists

[Kyle Burton <mortis@voicenet.com>]

I've made the changes you suggested.

As far as Chinese, and any other pictograph/icon based languages go, they
probably would be a problem.  What is the standard way to handle the language
abstraction that accounts for the differences between these languages, and
ones such as english/french/etc?

If there is a way to handle this programmaticly within code, I will
look at adding it to gperiodic -- I've started looking at gnu gettext
(see http://www.gnu.org for more info about gettext), but I'm not yet 
sure how to use it, or weather or not it supports these kinds of languages.

k

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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Robert Hopcroft wrote:

> Kyle, Several comments on the Home page. When the Home page first comes up, all I
> see is the News section. For this reason, I think I would put "What is
> GPeriodic?" first or at least a sentence as to what GPeriodic is/does. Also in
> the "What is GPeriodic?" section German is missing in the last sentence. Maybe
> that's because only the tables are in German. In the News section which I see
> first, I'm left wondering, "Is Spanish available in 1.0.7 or only in 1.0.6?".  I
> would add something like the following to the end of the second news item. 1.0.7
> is now available in English, French, German and Spanish. While talking about
> languages, you might want to consider if there would be any problems with a
> language like Chinese. You might want to look at
> http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/Jun-1999/msg00096.html and
> http://www.seul.org/archives/seul/edu/Jun-1999/msg00105.html.
> Also you might want to list GPeriodic on the seul-edu project list so that anyone
> landing there would see it see http://www.seul.org/edu/projects.html. Scroll to
> the bottom of the page for directions. Finally see the Software List
> http://www.seul.org/edu/software.html. I guess to get GPeriodic on the Software
> list one has to send a note to Wil (wil@seul.org) since he's not watching the
> seul-edu list.
> 
> Bob
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