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Last week I released a proof-of-concept demo of the next generation Ubiquity parser design and it was also the focus of discussion in our weekly internationalization meeting.¹ Christian Sonne even wrote a Danish plugin for it during the meeting—a testament to the pluggability and of the new parser design.

In addition, at the Ubiquity weekly meeting, pushing this new parser into Ubiquity proper was identified as a key goal of Ubiquity 0.2, making frequent iteration and debate over this parser essential.

To that end, I’ll highlight some of the changes made to the parser demo codebase in the past week:

• left-branching support and a Japanese parser
• basic French parser
• a timer display
• Danish parser by Christian Sonne
• synonyms: as an example, you can now use “purchase” or “buy,” both of which point to the same verb.
• verb name localizations: you no longer need to use the English verb names with different languages. (Currently only Japanese has any verb localizations.)
• a number of optimizations and corrections

I encourage you to check out the demo again or check out the source on BitBucket.

➔ Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation demo

I’d love to get comments, patches, or additional parsers! Thanks! ^^

Related posts:

1. Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation Demo
2. Foxkeh demos Ubiquity Parser: The Next Generation
3. Big Issues and Small Issues with Parser 2
4. Localizing Commands for Ubiquity 0.5
5. Talking Ubiquity in Japan: 拡張機能勉強会にて発表

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Tags: code, Danish, demo, French, humor, i18n, Japanese language, l10n, localization, Mozilla Planet, parser, ubiquity, update

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