Subj : Language Support
To   : AKAcastor
From : Roon
Date : Wed Apr 24 2024 08:26 pm

Hello AKAcastor,

24 Apr 24 10:44, you wrote to me:

 A>> I remember with Maximus BBS software, in the mid 90s, trying some
 A>> different language files, I thought I remembered there being an
 A>> Esperanto file around but I didn't find it after a quick search.

 R>> yeah my bbs has some other languages as well, like
 R>> german, czech, etc.. but i didn't translate the menus,
 R>> etc so its kinda half-legged. :)

 A> Translating the whole BBS is SO MUCH WORK!  I definitely have respect
 A> for anyone who goes to the trouble to do it fully.

when i was in high school i translated everything. sadly i've lost the files...

 A> It's great that
 A> Maximus has multilanguage support in its core functions, but that
 A> leaves menus and every ANSI screen etc etc.  And then what about names
 A> and descriptions of message and file areas.

afaik maximus has a solution for almost everything... at least the last time i've checked it in the documentation there are options for these. (or the worst case you can do an IF-ELSE in a MEX/MECCA file ;) )

Regards,
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dp

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