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The Pub / Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« on November 20th, 2012, 07:04 PM »
Changes so drastic to make worthless a translation?

Even if the difference (in language string lines) between alpha and gold is 50% I would think it's worth to start translating.

Of course it depends on how much spare time I can find, but apart from translating it, I don't see anything else I can do to collaborate just now.
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The Pub / Re: Looking for volunteers to test the Wedge private alpha!
« on November 20th, 2012, 06:01 PM »
So Wedge is already in the alpha stage! Wonderful news!

I was too busy with my rock band and I had missed it, but luckily live627 sent me a PM telling me. Thanks mate! Cannot wait to try it.

@Nao and/or Arantor> Can you add me to the testers group? Just now I don't see any "download" album inside "media".

I am planning to test it in a few live forums, but haven't decided yet exactly which ones, so I will give you links to them as soon as I do that.

BTW, most of the forums I administer are Spanish, so if I am going to use Wedge in them I will need to translate it to Spanish first. Anybody already working on that?

<note to myself>
Send a PM to Dr Marlboro
</note to myself>
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Off-topic / Re: Aeva Media in Spanish
« on November 30th, 2011, 12:25 AM »
I have installed the translation for 1.3a (the newest one in Noisen) and so far I haven't found any un-translated strings in the public area.

Apparently all the differences in language strings between 1.3a and 1.4w are only inside the admin area, so I think I am not going to bother translating them. I am the only admin there.  :eheh:
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Off-topic / Aeva Media in Spanish
« on November 29th, 2011, 06:18 PM »
Hi

Sorry to post this here, but the problem I have in Noisen is that I cannot start a new thread there. I suppose it must be a security measure, because I have only 7 posts in there, but as all the people from Noisen are also here I hope you don't mind if I ask my question here.

Anybody have a Spanish translation for Aeva Media 1.4w?

I have installed in Tebas web site SMF 2.0.1 and Aeva Media 1.4w but the latest Spanish translation I have seen at Noisen is the translation for Aeva Media 1.3a that dannbass did more than a year ago.

If there is not any newer one, I will do it myself, translating only the new strings (comparing both versions), but if anybody have done it already, it would save me some work.

It's not a big deal anyway, because I won't be using SMF and Aeva Media there for too long. As soon as Wedge Alpha is ready I will convert the forum and the Media to it. In fact my first plan (as I have already said a few times) was to do only a simple site for Tebas, with only a few information pages (almost straight HTML) and don't bother at all with a forum there until Wedge was ready.

But as TE has done a beautiful converter (that will take care of Aeva Media at the same time than the forum) and a lot of fans are already asking if they will be able to upload photos and videos to our site from the big concert we are doing in a couple of weeks, I have decided to install this 2 now and convert them later.

And I think it's also the last chance I have of ever using Aeva Media in a site. I was not very happy thinking that I was one of the few persons in the world that never had used it.  :eheh:
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Plugins / Re: Quick little plugin
« on October 25th, 2011, 03:47 PM »
Quote
You could even have it remember after the first time, so that it only did it once per page rather than every click.
That would be a lot better yes.

I need to remember it the next time a customer ask me to do something like that in any site. Sometimes it doesn't matter how much you try to explain to them it's something stupid. They are the ones paying and they want it even if it sucks. At least having an alternative half useful is better than nothing.
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Plugins / Re: Quick little plugin
« on October 25th, 2011, 03:07 PM »
I found interesting the answer by Paracelsus.

Apparently he has a site with content with a Creative Commons license, so instead of something to forbid the use of right click he would like something like a "warning" message (something like... "remember to add our link as source, since our content is protected bla bla bla...") but allowing the users to actually copy whatever they want.

I haven't thought too much about it, but I suppose that if you have an alert(message) and you change the return false to return true that would do the trick. Won't it?

Not that I would use anything like that in any of my sites though, but interesting anyway for future references. Maybe I could use that idea for some customers.
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Maybe a better explanation here:

http://css-tricks.com/3458-perfect-full-page-background-image/

(or at least a little less techie)
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Off-topic / Re: Kudos for Nao & Arantor
« on August 3rd, 2011, 01:30 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on August 3rd, 2011, 07:56 AM
PS: can you tell me, on a psychological level, your reason for changing the font size and color on each of your posts?
That's something I have always wonder too and never asked.
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Off-topic / Re: Changing from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8
« on July 16th, 2011, 05:53 PM »
That function is part of mbstring extension and it's not installed by default in PHP, so it will be OK in some servers but not in others. I was looking for something more general.

Anyway I will try to see if my friend has this one installed.

The good thing is (as Arantor was saying) once you have everything in UTF-8, all those problems are history.
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Development blog / Re: Now with 97% more visuals!
« on July 15th, 2011, 04:24 AM »
Hey, we got screenshots!  :bravo:

Let's get the beer out to celebrate (and some wine for Nao of course)  :niark:
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Off-topic / Re: Changing from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8
« on July 14th, 2011, 12:52 AM »
The problem is not mine because I have iconv in my server. So I will need to tell this friend he will need to do it the hard way.

Luckily for him is not so bad, because he has a lot less pages than me and with fewer bridges between them.  :eheh:
Posted: July 14th, 2011, 12:49 AM

Anyway I suppose I will be the one doing it for him at the end of the day, so in that sense it IS my problem  :lol:
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Off-topic / Changing from ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8
« on July 14th, 2011, 12:32 AM »
I have a small problem here.

I started ages ago doing all my pages in ISO-8859-1 and then later in ISO-8859-15

After a few years I installed some pieces of software in those pages that were working in UTF-8 because I was not aware at the time of the problems of different encodings.

With the years everything in all my pages have been going worst and worst with mixed encodings all over the place, and it's even worst because there are lots of different programs with bridges connecting all of them.

So I already decided some time ago to sort that out deciding to leave just one encoding and changing every thing with a different one, but was not decided which one I should leave until I learned you were doing Wedge with only UTF-8. Since then I have already been changing all the pages and the databases I have in ISO-8859-15 to UTF-8.

Doing this, when I am ready to move all of them to Wedge it will be easier for me.

The problem I have is everything is so mixed up and have relations all over the place that sometimes I have a situation like this one:

Imaging I have a database that used to be in ISO-8859-15 and I am getting data from that database and displaying it in a lot of different pages.

I have already changed all the data inside the DB to UTF-8, but I have only changed some of the pages to UTF-8. Some of the pages are still in ISO-8859-15, so I need to convert the data to ISO-8859-15 before displaying it in those page.

What I have done is something like:

Code: [Select]
if ($context['character_set'] != 'UTF-8')
$data_text = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-15", $data_text);

This is working for me, but today I was trying to help a guy that has exactly my same problem, I tried to do exactly that same trick and he got an error saying the function iconv() was not defined.

So I went to the manual and found out that function is not installed by default in all the PHP installations, but it's in an optional package and obviously it's not installed in this guy's server.

Now, the problem is that's the only function I knew to do the conversions from one encoding to another and that's the one I have been always using.

I have been checking the manual and cannot find another one to do the same job.

Any ideas?
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Plugins / [Naming poll] Re: Packages
« on July 13th, 2011, 01:28 PM »
Quote from Nao/Gilles on July 13th, 2011, 12:59 PM
So it makes me think the word 'add-on' is very natural to you guys, while non-English countries never use it, and prefer to use other words, like extensions, plugins or mods.
Don't know, I am Spanish and I use add-ons. But of course maybe I am not a good example after so many years living in Scotland and all the time I was working with Americans and British in Tenerife. Maybe you have a point there.  :hmm:
Quote from Arantor on July 13th, 2011, 12:44 AM
In other news, can I rename this 'the bikeshed thread'? :D
As Norodo pointed out mods used to have motorbikes (see the photo) so they should have a bikeshed.  :lol:
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Development blog / Re: Banning, and what I want to do with it
« on July 12th, 2011, 02:36 PM »
I have been reading it all and cannot see anything missed. I think you have covered there any possible aspect of the problem and also that you have found the perfect solutions for each one of them.

In fact I stopped using the ban system in SMF 2 or 3 years ago because I thought it wasn't working as it should and I already have more or less some of the ideas you have been talking about here (but in a more subliminal level, not as clear as you have expressed them here).

Congratulations.  :cool: