[HuangA]

Originally Posted by Atsuko

Hello!

I was taught about this thread from Brad.
I am using VB 3.5.3 and the language is Japanese.
So I have same problem with Chinese when using original VB.

I need help to install your hack to 3.5.3 .

Can someone make a plugin for it?

wow, old thread =X

Even though I joined up with vBulletin Chinese briefly after releasing the above, I haven't been doing a whole lot with vB lately (especiall 3.5.x series), so I don't know as to how complicated it'd be to port it over to 3.5.3. Furthermore, I think with 3.5.x series, vBulletin-chinese went ahead and made everything into unicode and hence doesn't have this kind of problem.

With 3.5.x, there is an option to make the search feature to use fulltext search. Again, I don't know to what extend it enables the fulltext search capability (partly because I haven't touched it yet, partly because I haven't looked into the code yet), so I don't know how effective it would be, even if we are still using SJIS/ISO-2022-JP. Have you tried enabling that? Does it improve your search results? This setting is directly under the vBulletin Options setting in the admin cp of your installation. You may wish to enable it on a test environment (IE: A spearate installation with a backup of your existing database so it does not affect your live instance) and see if it achieves your needs.

As an aside note, do you have a complete 3.5.3 Japanese language xml? If you have a complete one (with all the CP language, all the FAQ etc.) or if you have a partial one, and wouldn't mind fall back to English (or another complete one that you have) for the missing phrases, then maybe I can make an unicode copy that utilizes your japanese language xml from the svn. No promises as I need to check with 007 and others, and may need to verify your license status (can still download and can qualify for our unicode release etc.)