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Thraxil Feature Idea
by kamden
Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:32:44
I think it might be neat if thraxil was able to accept asian language imput. I know this may seem irrelevant and picky, but my brain has a hard time communicating without characters anymore. Thoughts?
comments
trevor - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:33:44
If that idea could even possibly not be fantasy, and what do I know of computer-machines, fat chance of Klingon being an available language... What is the Klingon word for loneliness...kurtis - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:39:44
Jak-Tar!sarah - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:34:44
how about we just have a pulldown menu for other character sets? Like when you see the code for a web page, and it says something other than <encoding="AmericanIsTheOnlyOptionRight?">. But you'll have to show me how to do accents in french properly.emile - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:35:44
and what will become of the tower of <strike>babel</strike>thraxil?lani - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:40:44
we'll have to break off into tribes and scatter the earth...oh damn...sarah - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:36:44
How about a delete button? or better yet, a contextual back button... ie one that knows where you came from and goes back up the pipe... oh oh... how about one that tracks your last 5, say, pages and goes back up them. Are we having fun yet?anders pearson - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:41:44
i'm not sure i follow you on the contextual back button stuff... delete will probably be available sometime. it's tricky though when you give it a little thought. what happens when you delete a node that has comments attached to it? it will probably be a very limited delete that won't let you delete nodes with comments and only within a certain amount of time after the node is created. i'd like delete to only be used for deleting accidental posts; it encourages people to think a little more before they post something if they know that they can't really take it back in the future (i've seen this become a problem on boards that allow arbitrary deletion of your old posts; someone posts something stupid, people respond pointing out how stupid it is, then the original poster deletes it or significantly edits it to cover their tracks).sarah - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:42:44
Ya. I live and learn. I read Rheingold's thing about suicide where someone goes and erase herself from the well. I mean, re: contextualized back buttons would be a line below the top line thraxil: [users] [keywords] that looks like navigation: [5] [4] [3] [2] [1] that could look like the 5 previous locations like: navigation: [thraxil] [wireless jello] [wireless jello: comments by lani] [lani's diary] [Re: Re: Thraxil Feature Idea] Like that.lani - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:37:44
kamden you "i only speak in characters" dirty slut. would you provide translation or would it be a treatise on the globo-cultural marginalization of east asians and identifying the placement of burden of language economy in the postpostcapitalist world?kamden - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:43:44
I could do that if you like, but really, pictures speak louder ... Eventually it will all be the same anyway. The burden of language economy is about all i got goin for me these days, so if you don't like it ... well, you canlani - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:44:44
sorry, i was just kidding in that "you can only be mean to your friends" way, because hopefully they'll realize that you would only call your nearest and dearest, "a slut," to their faces (or interfaces). i had this whole explanation for referencing Gloria Andzaldua's "Borderlands/La Frontera" as the inspiration for the language burden thing and that i wasn't actually opposed, i was just trying to be cheeky, but i lost it. it's been a while since i read it which makes it hard to explain without falling into the orthodoxies that it seems to oppose, but basically she writes without translation as an extension of the "borderland" of cultural "identification" to the point of being outside identification in which she exists. i say this tenatively and with a lot of quotation marks.anders pearson - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:38:44
including chinese support isn't that difficult. the real trick is mixing chinese and other languages and accounting for the fact that there are several different encodings for chinese. even without me doing anything to the backend, it's possible to include chinese characters if you happen to know their unicode character and are on a browser/OS platform that has support for such things built in. eg, if you are on such a platform (mozilla + linux seems to work fine), 水 should appear as <i>shui</i>, the character for water.sarah - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:45:44
I searched about for info on Unicode. It looks like my browser can do UDF-8, which is unicode, right? Perhaps if Thraxil just went unicode it wouldn't be too hard to get the rest of the world to follow...kurtis - Thu 22 Nov 2001 12:46:44
unicode is coming. Microsoft finally did away with Ascii entirely and have fully implemented it in 2k and XP (NT could use it but still default to ascii).