Re: Coordinates of AIS targets

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Владимир!

On Thu, 25 May 2023 22:47:26 +0300
Владимир Калачихин <v.kalachikhin@gmail.com> wrote:

> 14.05.2023 01:31, Gary E. Miller пишет:
> > "restricted manoeuverability": well, that is the Cambdridge (UK)
> > Dictionary spelling, but let's go with the spec.  Fix pushed.  
> 
> It may be strange for Americans, but not all people in the world
> speak English.

Do not think of this as "text", it is just keywords, from the Standard.
Not meant to be read by humans, except by programmers debugging the
protocol.

> Therefore, Therefore it is not necessary to return the
> field "status_text", it is sufficient to "status". People may want to
> see the "status_text" in their own language

I would not have coded it this way, but it is years too late to change
just to look prettier.  Plus it would break a lot of clients.

You can ignore the "status_text" and use "status" as the index into your
language dictionary.

RGDS
GARY
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