Re: [Bug-XBoard] [bug #34972] Several issues regarding lokalization

[h.g. muller]

At 11:00 3-12-2011 +0000, Byrial Jensen wrote:
> Follow-up Comment #3, bug #34972 (project xboard):
>
> Thanks, that was fast.
>
> PGN files should not be changed. The PGN specification does not allow for
> that, and it would not be portable.
>
> But I think the move notation should be changed in the Move list window and
> other places where a move is shown to the user. And it should also be changed
> for typing in the Type a move window.

I agree. But this is something that transcends the normal localization by 
string translation by far,
and would require the XBoard routines for parsing and generating moves to 
use different
pieceToCharTables depending on the source and intended destination of the move.
Even the -pieceNickNames option is now applied globally to all input moves.
This means you can only use it to define nick names that do not collide 
with existing
names fromother sources. So it would be OK to define B and N as nicknames for
E and H in Xiangqi. But defining Dutch names "OPLTD.opltd." with it would 
make any P
be interpreted as Knight rather than Pawn, interfering with reading FENs 
from PGN.

It is a hard problem, because changing variant has to redefine the 
pieceToCharTable anyway,
so to make it work would require XBoard to have a national version of the 
pieceToCharTable
for every variant, to be used as a default there.

I don't expect this could be fixed on ay short term, mainly for lack of 
ideas how it should be done.