I'm proud to announce that Joseba Real de Asua has been working with
Nebula Research and Development for the last several months,
representing our company well to a new base of MV VARs and end-users.
His primary focus so far has been on introducing DesignBais and mv.NET
to the Spanish market. We're very happy with all of the new contacts
and sales that have been made as part of this initiative. Our goal is
to ensure our clients in the USA, Spain, and elsewhere are happy with
their products and services, then to slowly expand to providing
similar offerings to other countries.

I have great respect for Joseba's skills with MV, .NET, related
technologies, and our supported products. This relationship allows
Nebula R&D to provide product support and sales directly in Europe,
and to take on larger projects in the USA and other parts of the
world. Joseba's relationship with his existing base of non-Nebula
clients and prospects in Spain has not changed. Nebula R&D will serve
as his backup and our combined resources will allow him to offer his
audience more options than before.

If you are using and/or selling MV software in Spain, Mexico, or
Central or South America, we'd like to discuss relationships with you.
Joseba and I will both be at Spectrum next week for meetings.

If you have software that you'd like to put into a GUI for an
international audience, please let me know.

If you are a VAR in Europe and would like to discuss working with
Nebula R&D as part of this or other initiatives, please let me know.

For more information on this relationship, please see
removethisNebula-RnD.com/intl.htm
or see our press release in the Jan/Feb 2007 Spectrum Magazine:
http://www.intl-spectrum.com/Magazin...3/Default.aspx

Thanks for your time,
Tony Gravagno, TG@ we.dont.like.spamNebula-RnD.com
Joseba Real de Asua, JRA@ no.spanish.spam.pleaseNebula-RnD.com

Hey Tony,

Since DesignBais support multiple languages, I am wondering if Joseba
wouldn't mind putting together and sharing an English to Spanish glossary.
Perhaps others can do the same with other languages.

BTW, you never billed me for DesignBais or mv.NET. Does that mean it is
free?

Jeff

"Tony Gravagno" <g6q3x9lu53001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com.invalid> wrote

To my knoledge neither DesignBais nor mv.NET can work in Russian locale so
far. So that Russian translation is either meaningless or not possible at
least.

I would be happy if anybody here proves that I'm wrong :^)

Nick

"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote

On Mar 1, 4:32 pm, "Nikolai Lukin" <nvlu... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
Nick,

DesignBais will have no problem with Russian locales. In fact, we
have systems live that run Chinesse, Thai, Spanish and others. To my
knowledge, the latest MV.NET patch for release 2.1 will handle foreign
character sets.

It would however be nice to know what platform you are running.

Rick Weiser
DesignBais International

"Jeffrey Kaufman" wrote:
The glossary isn't a word for word translation. As you know, when you
return an error to a user you do this:
IERR.TEXT = "File 'FOO' not found"
RETURN
The message that you want to get into the glossary is File Not Found,
with some space for the right filename. So a minor change to that is:
IERR.TEXT = "File [FOO] not found"
CALL DBI.G.GLOSSARY(IERR.TEXT)
RETURN
That does two things. First, it puts the text into the glossary,
allowing you to pull it up later in Glossary Maintenance and apply a
translation to the text outside of the brackets. Second, when the
call is performed and it does find a translation, it substitutes the
text outside of the brackets. To avoid hardcoding any messages into
the app, you can do something like this:
FNAME = "FOO" ; * try to open file
IERR.TEXT = "E196 [":FNAME:"]"
CALL DBI.G.GLOSSARY(IERR.TEXT)
Then you can customize the text for (contrived) error message 196 any
way you want and render it from the English glossary.

Glossary translations can be applied to Screen Prompts, Program
Messages, Help Text, and Menu Items.

The messages that get into the glossary would be application-specific
so (I'd think) a general purpose glossary would be tiny.

Because DesignBais is itself written in DesignBais, and can make use
of glossaries for its own development environment, Joseba will be
translating the software itself for use by Spanish-speaking developers
who purchase DesignBais from Nebula R&D.

Nebula R&D will do the same for other languages if there is any demand
from our clients. As a service, we will also provide glossary
translation for any DesignBais application. At this time I don't
believe we will be publishing glossaries.


Gulp! Uh, we'll have a look at that. Thanks Jeff.

Free software here, get it while the vendor is stupid!
Limited time offer, we hope!


Tony Gravagno, TG@ we.dont.like.spamNebula-RnD.com
Joseba Real de Asua, JRA@ no.spanish.spam.pleaseNebula-RnD.com

"Nikolai Lukin" wrote:

Nick, DesignBais has successfully been deployed in Chinese. Russian
and other non-latin alphabet languages would be done the same way.
Here is a sample screen shot showing mixed alphabet data (150k):
removeNebula-RnD.com/products/designbais/images/tasan1.jpg

mv.NET does not yet support unicode, but DesignBais only uses mv.NET
as the pipe to D3 and jBASE. So it's possible that only those
databases would not be able to support your apps with DesignBais.
jBASE itself supports Unicode. D3 does not. So with the right amount
of market demand DesignBais International might consider replacing the
pipe that goes between their software and the database, thus allowing
you to deploy your DesignBais app in Russian over jBASE.

DesignBais is also supported over Unidata and Universe, which support
multibyte characters.
About onWare, I will find out about their multibyte support next week.
About QM - anyone know about multibyte support? Through QMClient?
DesignBais is being ported to other platforms too.

Nick, I have your contact info and I'll get back to you.

Anyone else? Contact me:
TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com