And yet, one more version thanks to Jan Kleinhans who has pointed out that my option for preference of metric units (in the options dialog, there's a menu which allows you to select this preference), wasn't working for distances in directions. This latest version now honors this preference setting, although I am aware that other distances (computed by my app and shown when listing places) are still only shown in English units.
Again, this app can be downloaded from: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11745142/Remind_Me_Where.wepm I am very appreciative of all the help and interest, especially when people take the time to also tell me what they like and offer their appreciation; and of course, to help me out when the problem isn't something I can replicate, or sometimes when internationalizing an app, even understand all that well. I would like to point out, for the benefit of all screen reader users and developers, how much effort has gone into Window-Eyes scripting and XML dialog design to make it an extremely friendly environment for developing complex apps, and especially so for developing apps capable of being completely accessible by all cultures and languages. It's hard for me to imagine competitive screen reader products which are set up to make creation of dialogs (and other app support features) in all languages, and to make it so easy. I am still impressed every time I work in this environment, and see that with a little help from my friends, in translation and understanding other languages, Window-Eyes is designed to almost do all the rest of the work for me automatically. Chip -----Original Message----- From: Chip Orange [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2014 11:18 AM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: to international users of Remind Me Where Hi all, I realize this is soon, but David has helped me to turn up an issue which effects international beta testers of the Remind Me Where app, and I was able to post a (hopefully) fixed version, which I hope those non-English native speakers will help me test now. The problem was when I sent the data to Google (such as street names or city names) which had characters not usually found in English. There is a protocol for handling this (there are two steps: you must convert your data into UTF-8 format, and then convert it using URL encoding), and I wasn't performing the first step. This was causing Google to return an error for names which had these language-specific characters. This is version 0.5.6 and is still quite beta; I would appreciate help such as David's from other users because of this. The app can be downloaded from the url below (which does not change with version changes): https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11745142/Remind_Me_Where.wepm Thanks for any beta testing you feel that you can do, even if it's to tell me that you had only problems, I'd still like to hear about them. Enjoy, Chip
