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Subject: Re: Extensible Chess Interface (XCI) : updated draft

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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