Advice on Genderised strings

[hisdad]

Hi
I wa quite surprised to find that the non english game will return strings quite differently for example in German.
GetUnitClass("player") is "Zauberin^f" for a female sorc and "Zauberer^m" for a male sorc.

We can probably guess that the ^ is a marker

But race returns "Ork^m||Orks^p" yes we get both.

Then it gets weird.

Alliance returns "Ebenherz-Pakt^md",
Map --GetMapName() -- Stormhold- becomes "Sturmfeste^N,in"

Can anyone suggest a better normalisation than just deleting everything to the right of the ^?

Regards,
-Dad

PS: dates in string format are different as well.

[votan]

Originally Posted by hisdad Hi I wa quite surprised to find that the non english game will return strings quite differently for example in German. GetUnitClass("player") is "Zauberin^f" for a female sorc and "Zauberer^m" for a male sorc. We can probably guess that the ^ is a marker But race returns "Ork^m||Orks^p" yes we get both. Then it gets weird. Alliance returns "Ebenherz-Pakt^md", Map --GetMapName() -- Shadowfen becomes "Sturmfeste^N,in" Can anyone suggest a better normalisation than just deleting everything to the right of the ^? Regards, -Dad PS: dates in string format are different as well.

Yes, date format is different in all three supported languages

Use the ZO_FormatTime functions from WIKI
and look at: http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1443
Basically ALL names returned from API must be processed with zo_strformat.
Including zones names.

[hisdad]

Originally Posted by votan Yes, date format is different in all three supported languages Use the ZO_FormatTime functions from WIKI and look at: http://www.esoui.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1443 Basically ALL names returned from API must be processed with zo_strformat. Including zones names.

Can't use ZO_Format_Time as im going from String -> Timestamp
but that thread is just perfect!

That needs to go in the wiki!

Thanks V Much!

--Dad