Minor, but important translation issues

[Anonymous]

Hi,

There is a minor item that needs to be translated but is not available.

It is the "or" that appear between the words when the line "did you mean" appears...

A few more points:

- The "did you mean" only seems to work correctly in English, as it appears to be phonetically oriented. Is there any way to make it more international?

- In order to have dates on the pages, one must have the last-modified tag. The problem is that Zoom only recognizes dates with months in English. This makes it impossible to display the results with months abreviations in another language. For example: Aug should be Ago in portuguese.... If I make the last-modified tag in portuguese it doesn't work with zoom... Maybe we could have somekind of configuration in the lang file, so the indexing engine doesn't have to be recoded?

Any future implementation on these issues?

Thanks !

Francisco

BTW: David, there's a minor correction in the portuguese lang file I sent you in the past.

STR_ANY_OF_TERMS should be:

STR_ANY_OF_TERMS = "apenas algumas das palavras solicitadas"

[Anonymous]

one more thing...

I just got the message:

"The phrase "xxx" contains words which are found to be too common, resulting in a limited search. Try to specify a more specific phrase for better results."

But it is not in the translation files...

[Ray]

Re: Minor, but important translation issues

It is the "or" that appear between the words when the line "did you mean" appears...

You're right. We will have to update this in a future version (probably V5.0).

The "did you mean" only seems to work correctly in English, as it appears to be phonetically oriented. Is there any way to make it more international?

The spelling suggestion was primarily designed for English, but we expect that it should work reasonably for other latin-based languages, albeit not quite as good as it does for English.

In order to have dates on the pages, one must have the last-modified tag. The problem is that Zoom only recognizes dates with months in English. This makes it impossible to display the results with months abreviations in another language. For example: Aug should be Ago in portuguese.... If I make the last-modified tag in portuguese it doesn't work with zoom... Maybe we could have somekind of configuration in the lang file, so the indexing engine doesn't have to be recoded?

Unfortunately, this would require changes in the Indexer, as it currently only recognizes the meta last-modified date in the specified syntax (with english month names). We will address this in a future version by adding support for an alternative syntax which is entirely numeric. This should allow sites on foreign servers to at least change their last-modified dates to something suitable easily.

"The phrase "xxx" contains words which are found to be too common, resulting in a limited search. Try to specify a more specific phrase for better results."

But it is not in the translation files...

It should be. The text should be prepended by STR_PHRASE_CONTAINS_COMMON_WORDS ...

... OK, I just checked and this appears to have been left out of the CGI version. It's there in the PHP and ASP version. We will fix this in the next build.

[Anonymous]

Re: Minor, but important translation issues

Thanks for your feedback Ray. I'm glato to hear you have noted these issues for the next release/build.

In order to have dates on the pages, one must have the last-modified tag. The problem is that Zoom only recognizes dates with months in English. This makes it impossible to display the results with months abreviations in another language. For example: Aug should be Ago in portuguese.... If I make the last-modified tag in portuguese it doesn't work with zoom... Maybe we could have somekind of configuration in the lang file, so the indexing engine doesn't have to be recoded?

Unfortunately, this would require changes in the Indexer, as it currently only recognizes the meta last-modified date in the specified syntax (with english month names). We will address this in a future version by adding support for an alternative syntax which is entirely numeric. This should allow sites on foreign servers to at least change their last-modified dates to something suitable easily.

Wouldn't it be possible to allow users to map the months in a config file. Ie. tell the indexer to read from the database the month name in english but check a conversion table on it comes to displaying it...

Just a though, but you know better.

Best,

Francisco

[Ray]

Yes, we'll consider that too (allowing users to specify month names in the language file), but it depends on how much variation there is between the common date formats of other languages. The benefit of this latter method is that it can also be used to specify how dates should appear in the search results.