Japanese Pack 1.3.7 (Crystal Koi)

[CrystalKoi]

Just to let people know that we are still going on this. We have run into some bumps in the road. EUC issue is paypal in Japaneses and UTF-8 has a hotmail issue.

But we are working on them now...thanks for everyone's patience on this and if you have any know work arounds for the issues at hand please let me know.

Regards,
CK

[phreakymonkey]

To paraphrase the PM I just sent to CrystalKoi, problems with Hotmail will occur if the customer is receiving e-mails in UTF-8 (in Japanese or any other language with non-standard characters) and their Hotmail account language is set to English. Customers using Japanese Hotmail accounts should not have a problem, based on my tests.

[phreakymonkey]

I lied. Hotmail seems determined to serve everything as ISO-8859-1 for some reason, even if a language other than English is selected. The recently-upgraded version of Hotmail, Windows Live Hotmail, has converted to UTF-8, but since account holders have to manually upgrade, there are most certainly plenty of people who haven't done so.

[CrystalKoi]

Just to let people know. We are testing the pack today and hope to have it up soon. It looks good but want to give it a run over again. We are going to offer UTF-8 and EUC. If anyone wants an advance copy without instructions please pm me and let me know utf or euc, I wouldn't mind testers but you need to know what you are doing. Please if you are new to zen cart then just wait for the pack. Shouldn't be long now.

On that note, sorry about the delay. Not going to give you a big excuse, life is life and it has just gone that way right now.

For those of you who are using the Japanese zen-cart teams pack. I would really check into how it works on php5 as most servers will be dropping php4 soon as support has now been dropped. I really have no clue how it will function on php5 and I hope if it needs it, they will update it for you guys.

Regards,

CK

[katzman]

Hi, CrystalKoi! How's it going with the pack? If you have a newer version for testing, please mail it to me.

BTW, did you use the same translations as the other Japanese version?

[cutiedevil]

I'm going to be diving into this too. I just downloaded the pack... are there any more recent files? Even with reading the txt files, I'll probably be dropping in with some questions. I'm setting up a ZC site for my wife. She speaks/reads/writes Japanese and I don't so I'm afraid of flying blind.

J

[richter]

Hey everyone,
Is there any update on this language pack?
can someone confirm whether this is still in Beta or full version.
Also please confirm what work remains to be done. What known bugs are there?

Ive been out of Japan and I want to pick my project up again ASAP.
Otsukaresamadeshita!

[CrystalKoi]

@richter
We are building another Japanese zc for a client. We will have their cart going in 1.3.8 and should have that done by the end of this month or beginning of next month, the problem with posting 1.3.7 for me was all the mods that have to be done, to fix all the little things. I will document it as I go this time (as best I can) and post the files that I use. Supporting it seems to take more time than I had accounted for. Its not dead at all.

If you can pm me your email address and I will send you what I have, but you will have to work through it, I have a pack for 1.3.7 but the new version has new language definitions in it that will need to be done. Let me know if you want euc or utf-8.

Regards,
CK

[cutiedevil]

We got our site up and everything seems to be working fine. So far, the biggest problems I've run into are getting the correct Japanese address order and getting the Yen currency symbol into order emails.

www.cutiedevil.com

[CrystalKoi]

@cutiedevil and everyone else

I am working out a new Japanese pack at the current moment. I have been thinking about a lot of underlining problems with the current Japanese pack. Our pack that we made was taken from the current Japanese team. This has seemed to have halted a lot of development of their pack.

There are some issues that really get to me about the way the pack handles things. For example, the fix for the pack to make the last name show up in the right was to just replace first name w/ last name, so that when it’s entered this places the name in the first name section of the database. This causes issues later when you want to use payment modules such as PayPal, which can be fixed in a much cleaner way, but is harder for the average person to do.

I will be writing up a 4 part (or so) installation process for a new pack that will address all the issues. This is a big reason why the current pack has not been updated. It had many issues, while it works, it seems you always have draw backs.

In the write up, I hope to make it as simple as possible, but it will not be a drop in pack. You will have to edit code yourself. I don't want to spend days every time a new version of ZC comes out, or if I stop working with ZC, to have people left hanging.

It will be a learning process, and if this is too complicated for people to do, then you can always contact me and I will install it for you, but it won't be for free, as I am really busy with projects. (Zen team, not trying to advertise, just trying to be up front that I will not install this for just anyone)

The code that I will write, will switch the code of the files w/ the language. Where as the current pack switches only the language. This pack will actually change the underlining code so that everything will run smoothly later on.

It will also have all the prefectures in English (for the English side) as a drop down and when you switch the cart to Japanese, in Japanese as a drop down.

This will take me a little bit of time, but I need this for a current site I am working on. So I won't be giving it as a pack so to speak, but as a learning experience with the current translations need for the current version that is out at the time. I hope to have it all up to the 1.3.8a version, or whatever the current version is at the time.

So this isn't dead, it’s just been me busy and also trying to change the whole direction of the pack.

Regards,
CK