Subj : Help using gettext.js
To   : ALL
From : vela025
Date : Sun Oct 13 2024 09:20:12

Hey all,

A while ago I was creating BeeBS II the successor to BeeBS (beebs.ddns.net) a
BBS which supports Acorn mode 7 (teletext graphics) as well as ANSI and ASCII
running on my BBC Micro. I've recently found my backup of BeeBSII (the
synchronet successor) and would like to complete the project but this time
"legally" i.e. still keeping a 40 col ascii mode rather than sending teletext
control codes via that. Instead I've decided to create a localisation language
(bbcmicro) and store the menu files in /text/menu/bbcmicro. Using
text.bbcmicro.ini will allow me to create the Mode 7 prompts, but I'm
struggling to use gettext.js to customise yesnobar.js  I would like to replace
"\x01h\x014\x01w\x01e[\x01~%s]\x01n\x01b\x01h \x01~%s" with "\x82(%s)\x81%s".

To yesnobar.js I have added/amended:
load("gettext.js");
str = format(gettext("\x01h\x014\x01w\x01e[\x01~%s]\x01n\x01b\x01h \x01~%s"),
yes_str, no_str);

To the end of text.bbcmicro.ini I have added:
[JS]
\x01h\x014\x01w\x01e[\x01~%s]\x01n\x01b\x01h \x01~%s = \x82(%s)\x81%s

I get no errors, however the prompts appear as they originally did.

I can replace the string in yesnobar.js which works fine, but then
(understandably) doesn't look great in ASCII/ANSI clients.

There is also a small typo in the example given here:
http://wiki.synchro.net/custom:javascript:lib:gettext.js 

print(getttext - should be - print(gettext

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