Author: Peter Schäfer
Date: 08:26:07 03/15/05
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On March 15, 2005 at 05:29:58, Tord Romstad wrote: >On March 15, 2005 at 04:29:21, Alessandro Scotti wrote: > >>I think an engine should not have to deal with such issues. Rather, the >>translation of option names and values should be put in a separate file that is >>read by the GUI. > >Absolutely. I also have another suggestion with respect to option names: >Some kind of quoting mechanism should be used. Instead of > >option name King safety weight type spin default 100 min 0 max 200 > >one should use something like this: > >option name "King safety weight" type spin default 100 min 0 max 200 > I would rather use short identifiers for options (and string values), and pass the (localized) display label in a separate command (as proposed elsewhere in this thread): option name king-safety ... language en king-safety = "King Safety Weight" language de king-safety = Königssicherheit In any case, option identifiers should not be language depended (so that settings won't get lost whenever the user changes his language)
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