Forum OpenACS Development: The automated localization of strings is getting annoying :(

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1: The automated localization of strings is getting annoying :(
Posted by Daniël Mantione on 01/14/06 10:08 PM
Hi,

The auto-localization is causing trouble on my forums, where, i.e.: 

writeln(#13#10)
whoops :) Actually: 
writeln(#13#10)
... is quite common in Pascal code, so multiple users have discovered the bug already. The're not going to like OpenACS :(

Check out this thread (messages might have been edited already with the workaroubnd though): http://community.freepascal.org:10000/bboards/message?message_id=149360&forum_id=24083#218944

What to do about it? I'm both interrested in work-arounds as in to talk about a proper solution.

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2: Re: The automated localization of strings is getting annoying :( (response to 1)
Posted by Dave Bauer on 01/14/06 10:17 PM
One workaround is to forget the message key missing message and show the untranslated string. That will work when the hash marks don't surroung a valid message key.
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3: Re: The automated localization of strings is getting annoying :( (response to 1)
Posted by Malte Sussdorff on 01/16/06 11:53 AM
Best solution in my opinion is close to what dave suggests. If you can't find a message key, check if the first part of the key is a valid package_key. If it is not, display the message, if it is display the "message_key" not found error message.

This should help you further, unless you way:

writeln(#forums.13#10)