[BETA] YaBB SE Language Editor

[Compuart]

Version 0.95 BETA

Test this script here!

This mod is actually not a real mod, but a stand alone PHP-script. It alows you to edit YaBB SE Language Files online. It also can compare your language files with other language files

Main features are:

• Edit language files online, easy and safe
• Item-by-item comparison of language files
• Blend parts of the Compare File into your Source File
• Select items and edit them
• characters are automatically (un)escaped
• switch easily between text strings, arrays and 'here doc'-statements (using print <<<EOT)
• Add comments
• Original file (structure) is maintained and only the items that are edited change
• Search through a languagefiles and edit all items containing the search string
• read/write/convert YaBB 1 Gold <-> YaBB SE language files

Some screenshots:

[Chris Cromer]

Wow, looks good.

[vorapoap (vory)]

Yeh! Looks very good

[David]

This is one of the coolest tools I have ever seen!  

[Daniel D.]

  *speechless*

[Sensor]

Just tried it..

I am working currently on a hebrew language file.. and it doesn't display the text correctly.. I had to manually fit in a meta tag just above the body tag to make it work:

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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-8-I">
But damn it looks good! this really helps:)

[Compuart]

I am working currently on a hebrew language file.. and it doesn't display the text correctly.. I had to manually fit in a meta tag just above the body tag to make it work:

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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-8-I">

But is this the way to make a uniform character set supporting hebrew, western, greek, etc. characters? Or is a configurable characters set preferrable? Suggestions are welcome, cuz I actually don't know much about character sets.

Any other bugs? there have to be...  

[Sensor]

This is not a bug (at all)

it is just a problem in the coding of html.. especially with exotic languages..

The meta tag tells the browser that the higher ascii should be interpreted as Hebrew

so one loses ö à etc... but in a completely hebrew forum that doesnt matter..
there is one huge problem with the complete Yabb forum.. but I am working with a friend on that.. so that it COMPLETELY uses RTL (right to left) typing/text..
we are very close.. and it is not a mod anymore.. it is a modification of the complete forum I'm afraid...
ah well:)

Thanks again forthis cool app!

[Compuart]

Hmmm, that wouldn't be a bad idea. A language editor should support every language (sounds logical  )

I'm gonna add this feature so that it's configurable wether text is written (and input) from left-to-right or from right-to-left. And also possible to choose a character set.

But where am I gonna find all character sets. Probably somewhere on w3c.org, right?

[Jeff Lewis]

Compuart, great idea  We had looked at making that sort of thing for the site here but were just too busy

[Sensor]

hmm..

I found the character set more or less by searching very hard... I mean I couldnt find a thing on w3c.org.. Man that site is just as transparant as Microsoft.com (meaning: NOT )

ah well..
I try to look here and there, if I find a link, I will mail it to you

cheers

[Compuart]

Compuart, great idea  We had looked at making that sort of thing for the site here but were just too busy

Glad I could save ya some time  

I found the character set more or less by searching very hard... I mean I couldnt find a thing on w3c.org.. Man that site is just as transparant as Microsoft.com (meaning: NOT )

Found it and implemented it. Thanx.

So here is the new release. This release has the character set configurable, as well as the right-to-left input/texts.

Also a new feature is that the language editor is universal YaBB, so it can now read/write/convert YaBB 1 Gold-files as well as YaBB SE-files.

I've setup a test environment, so that everyone can test it thoroughly   Feel free to edit every language file you can find there and tell me whether there are still bugs in the script.

[Jedi~]

Your permissions are set incorrectly on your test enviroment.

[Chris Cromer]

Maybe he did it on purpose to keep us from saving over the .lng files.

[Compuart]

oops, nope, I forgot  

Everything should work fine now