[slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread bukharin
For anyone who's interested, I've changed all of the English text in strings.txt to Australian English. This means that "favorites" becomes "favourites", etc. It's nice to have everything look correct! An updated strings.txt for server 6.5.1 can be found at my website: http://www.bukharin.net/phi

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread Marc Sherman
bukharin wrote: > For anyone who's interested, I've changed all of the English text in > strings.txt to Australian English. This means that "favorites" becomes > "favourites", etc. It's nice to have everything look correct! Ahem. First of all, your subject is missing some subjects (of the Queen,

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread amcluesent
>If you find anything I've missed, please let me know!< Have you changed "Welcome to Squeezebox" to "G'day cobber!" :) -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this th

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread Mark Lanctot
bukharin;198287 Wrote: > * "favorite" to "favourite" > * "visualize" to "visualise" > * "customize" to "customise" > * "synchronize" to "synchronise" > * "analyzer" to "analyser" > * "analog" to "analogue" Nearly the same in Canada as well. You also see "hard disc". Although I don't see "analo

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread kdf
On 29-Apr-07, at 7:22 AM, Marc Sherman wrote: >> An updated strings.txt for server 6.5.1 can be found at my website: >> http://www.bukharin.net/phil/linux/slimdevices/ > > Any chance of getting this integrated into the server as a proper > localisation so that it's kept in sync with server changes

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Herger
> Any chance of getting this integrated into the server as a proper > localisation so that it's kept in sync with server changes? There's an open feature request for doing this (including a possible patch): http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4828 Feel free to vote for it or whatever :-

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread Michael Herger
> I've been using custom-strings.txt for some time now to alter certain > strings. it avoids the need for a complete strings file saved over the > standard, and it isn't overwritten when you install a new version of > slimserver. ...and using my StringEditor plugin you can even handle this withou

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread Diana
bukharin;198287 Wrote: > For anyone who's interested, I've changed all of the English text in > strings.txt to Australian English... > > * "favorite" to "favourite" > * "visualize" to "visualise" > * "customize" to "customise" > * "synchronize" to "synchronise" > * "analyzer" to "analyser" > * "

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread bukharin
Marc Sherman;198301 Wrote: > Ahem. First of all, your subject is missing some subjects (of the Queen, > > that is). Second of all, it's not Australian English, mate. :) Yeah, I thought that would get your attention!! ;-) > An updated strings.txt for server 6.5.1 can be found at my website: > h

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-29 Thread smc2911
Mark Lanctot;198317 Wrote: > Nearly the same in Canada as well... > About the only words we don't use that Brits do is "tyre", "lorry" and > "crisps". We Aussies use "tyre" but "lorry" is unusual (although understood) and we don't use "crisps" (we chips and hot chips not crisps and chips). --

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-30 Thread David Lawrence
bukharin;198287 Wrote: > > > * "visualize" to "visualise" > > Ahem. The correct spelling of visualize is visualize, as in the Oxford English dictionary. 'Visualise' is a faux-French bastardization. -- David Lawrence

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-30 Thread bukharin
David Lawrence;198504 Wrote: > Ahem. > > The correct spelling of visualize is visualize, as in the Oxford > English dictionary. 'Visualise' is a faux-French bastardization. You're right, of course - and that's precisely why I deliberately called it "Australian" English! The most common spelling

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-04-30 Thread Mark Lanctot
smc2911;198502 Wrote: > We Aussies use "tyre" but "lorry" is unusual (although understood) and > we don't use "crisps" (we eat chips and hot chips not crisps and > chips). Here, "chips" come in a bag with flavours (note spelling) like barbecue and salt & vinegar. What the Brits would call crisp

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread Peter
Michael Herger wrote: >> Any chance of getting this integrated into the server as a proper >> localisation so that it's kept in sync with server changes? >> > > There's an open feature request for doing this (including a possible > patch): > http://bugs.slimdevices.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4828 >

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread Peter
bukharin wrote: > David Lawrence;198504 Wrote: > >> Ahem. >> >> The correct spelling of visualize is visualize, as in the Oxford >> English dictionary. 'Visualise' is a faux-French bastardization. >> > > You're right, of course - and that's precisely why I deliberately > called it "Austral

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Herger
> NL as a top-six language? > I'm amazed... Willem told me as well. This probably represents Logitech's market share. Swiss German (not the dialect, but the Swiss spelling I was using so far) doesn't make it there. I wondered why nobody ever complaint about it :-). But now that there are pros

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread Enno Davids
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 01:51:27AM -0700, bukharin wrote: | |David Lawrence;198504 Wrote: |> Ahem. |> |> The correct spelling of visualize is visualize, as in the Oxford |> English dictionary. 'Visualise' is a faux-French bastardization. | |You're right, of course - and that's precisely why I del

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread bukharin
kdf;198324 Wrote: > I've been using custom-strings.txt for some time now to alter certain > strings. it avoids the need for a complete strings file saved over the > standard, and it isn't overwritten when you install a new version of > slimserver. Thanks for this, kdf - I wasn't aware of this f

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread bukharin
bukharin;198816 Wrote: > When I get time I'll replace my "strings.txt" offering with a > "custom-strings.txt" for Australian localisation Done: http://www.bukharin.net/phil/linux/slimdevices/custom-strings/index.html It doesn't seem to override the text in plugins (eg the visualizer plugin). It

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Herger
> It doesn't seem to override the text in plugins (eg the visualizer Many plugins define their own string. Make sure you translate them as well. The StringEditor plugin can help you find the strings and translate them without restarting SlimServer ;-) -- Michael ---

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread Paul_B
Buckharin, How about Scouse, Geordie, Cockney (both rhyming and not), Devonian, Cornish ;o) -- Paul_B Paul ~ Slimserver 6.5.2 on EPIA VIA EN15000 Mini-ITX running Windows 2003 R2. Remote storage QNAP(2.0.1T)~(300GB WD) SB3 (x1) RIP - dBpowerAMP R1

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread bukharin
Hi Michael, I used your plugin to find all of the strings, but editing them didn't work for either the main set of strings or for plugins (none of the changes were saved, or indeed even showed up in the web interface). I didn't have time to troubleshoot this last night when I last posted. I real

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-01 Thread Michael Herger
> I used your plugin to find all of the strings, but editing them didn't > work for either the main set of strings or for plugins Something must be terribly wrong with it. You're not the first to report this, but I wasn't able to reproduce so far :-(. This makes the whole plugin rather useless

Re: [slim] Attention Aussies and Brits!

2007-05-02 Thread bukharin
Michael Herger;198953 Wrote: > > I used your plugin to find all of the strings, but editing them > didn't > > work for either the main set of strings or for plugins > > Something must be terribly wrong with it. You're not the first to > report > this, but I wasn't able to reproduce so far :-(.