I've been trying to get the linux version of Q3 in France, but no store I went to had it (or even knew there was such a thing). Of course, I had the option of buying it on Loki, but you know... I just had to have it right this minute.
That, plus the fact that it's dead easy to install the windows version on a Linux box, makes it quite obvious why there was a lot more win32 sales.
Just my two cents...
Kueller
I had a similar problem a few months ago while designing a servlet based website. The solution I found was to use a preffix based language search. For example, say you connect as a french user. One of the parameters you'll send to the client is 'language=fr'. Server side, any language dependent picture is prefixxed with 'fr_', and any text was looked up in the 'FR_TEXT' database. Of course, you'll probably need to fine-grain it if you don't want to have redundant pictures (my understanding is that an arrow looks exactly the same whatever the language...). Nicolas Rinaudo
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I've been trying to get the linux version of Q3 in France, but no store I went to had it (or even knew there was such a thing). Of course, I had the option of buying it on Loki, but you know... I just had to have it right this minute.
That, plus the fact that it's dead easy to install the windows version on a Linux box, makes it quite obvious why there was a lot more win32 sales. Just my two cents...
Kueller
I had a similar problem a few months ago while designing a servlet based website. The solution I found was to use a preffix based language search.
For example, say you connect as a french user. One of the parameters you'll send to the client is 'language=fr'. Server side, any language dependent picture is prefixxed with 'fr_', and any text was looked up in the 'FR_TEXT' database. Of course, you'll probably need to fine-grain it if you don't want to have redundant pictures (my understanding is that an arrow looks exactly the same whatever the language...).
Nicolas Rinaudo