WoW:Parsing event messages: Difference between revisions

WoW:Parsing event messages (source)

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-== What's so dirty about the quick-and-dirty way? ==
-You will find that as people in other locales start using your AddOn, that they have problems.  This is due to the fact that your code is expecting the system messages to be arriving in English, whereas they might actually be arriving in some other language.
-Once you've started off on the quick-and-dirty way, you are likely to consider asking people to provide you translations, so you can modify your code accordingly for a quick-and-dirty fix.  However, you can tell what a mess your code would quickly turn into:
   function MyHonorTracker_OnEvent()
     if(event == "CHAT_MSG_COMBAT_HONOR_GAIN") then
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       elseif(GetLocale() == "frFR") then
         pattern = "french-words (.+) french-words (.+) french-words (.+)";
-        -- notice that the parameters are not necessarily always in the same order in all languages
+     elseif(GetLocale() == "koKR") then
+        pattern = "(.+) korean-for-dies, korean-words: (.+) %(more-korean: (.+)%)";
       else
         pattern = "who knows";