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[Monni the Cat]

It has been a long quiet winter with not so big announcements, but as the sun gets warmer and warmer, all evil coders will wake up from their beauty sleeps. Now that Unizone has got a nice language base, I and other inside team members have decided to add brand new feature to the collection of BeShare clients. First we got TransferNotifyRejected, next we will have IRC-style channels and at the same time we will skip to the next level of internationalization, dynamic language modules.

For now, language modules are loaded on first start-up, but when you shut down, you can delete the language setting file and it will ask you to select a new translation. This makes adding new languages much faster and we don't need 'n' number of executables.

This is in early beta yet, so we are not releasing any inside specifications for either the IRC-style channel code nor the language system.

If you want to join the new team, you should give a little donation to my PayPal account. Even a single euro or dollar will be adequate, as long as we know that users respect all the hard-working coders of the Unizone/Unishare team. Let's start the series of Next Generation (NG) BeShare clients that will make all other file sharing clients obsolete. We all know that BeShare/MUSCLE-clients run better with Unicode and international character sets and has a lot better athmosphere compared to the other communities.

For old team members, this change will not void your team membership. We will convert all the old translations to the new format and continue making them more complete as time goes by.

- Monni the Cat -

PS.
Other BeShare-compatible client developers can have little inside specifications by request, so that compatibility can be kept up.

PS2.
We all know that Unizone was a rip-off from Ozone, but I and other team members still hope that Ozone stays alive, so we are still replacing the old parts with brand new code, but not all can be replaced without compromising the compatibility, so we will keep the reminder of the past in the about box of present and future Unizone versions.

And what I said about giving specifications to other developers, that includes Vitaliy too if he wants to join the NG team. And all comments and feature requests are still welcome.