Comment 8 for bug 808570

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John S. Gruber (jsjgruber) wrote : Re: [Bug 808570] Re: If Lernid uses a translated "QUESTION:" it must agree with what ClassBot is looking for

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Nathan Handler <email address hidden> wrote:
> I believe that should work. This is also assuming that the translators
> translate 'Question' the same way for ClassBot and Lernid.

That's right.

Should we instead do some of handshake? At Lernid start and again at
session change should Lernid query ClassBot for the "word" of the
hour, perhaps (in UTF-8). I'd have to add some more private channel
handling to Lernid, and you'd have to add a query/response to
Classbot. I'd have to be able to figure out what ClassBot is called in
the channel, I guess, so I could communicate with it.

In the meantime Lernid probably should *not* translate the word
QUESTION, maybe not bother to translate the pop-over and notification
reminder, until we can work this out and be ready to do whatever we
decide.

It's not translated at this point, so there is time to work this out,
by the way. I was afraid there was a translation for Question already
out there and it wouldn't match what Classbot was doing, but no,
fortunately.