Web server statistics in Verdurian

How did I manage to make analog generate a report in Verdurian?

When I saw that the popular web server log file analyser analog could be configured to produce its output in a different language, I thought of Verdurian.

Then, one day (well, over the course of several days), I went and translated the configuration file into Verdurian... and then also the description file and the domain file. You can see the result in iso-8859-2 format (aka Latin-2 or Eastern Europe), or in iso-8859-1 format. I prefer iso-8859-2 because it gives me real letters with caron (unfortunately, i-breve isn't supported, and when I tried a UTF-8 configuration file, analog had trouble aligning things due to the fact that UTF-8 uses a variable number of bytes per character). However, lowercase d-with-caron (and t-with-caron, which would be needed for Cadhinor, for example) generally come out looking like d-with-apostrophe. But that's not iso-8859-2's fault; rather, it's a typographical decision which, apparently, has something to do with the Czech and/or Slovak languages.

I'm crazy, too! I want to have Verdurian statistics!

Well, you've come to the right place. Just download a ZIP file with all the required configuration files. If you're not interested in all of them and want to download individual files, you can also do that.

News flash: Viminian now available! See the files viminian*.*. Now you, too, can have web server statistics not only in an invented language, but in a dialect of an invented language! (Caveat: No guarantees that the files are idiomatic Viminian :) These only come in *.lng, *.txt, and *.cfg for now, so you'll need to use the appropriate verdurianxdom.tab file if you want domain names.

Either way you do it, you should stick *.lng, *.tab, and *.txt in the "lang" subdirectory of your analog installation so that it'll find it; *.cfg can go in the same directory as analog itself. Then just include a line with CONFIGFILE verdurianx.cfg at the end of your analog.cfg file, or call analog with the +gverdurianx.cfg option, and it should work.

The files verdurianx.cfg are configuration files which load the other language files as appropriate; they also define aliases for file types such as "PNG image". You only need this if you want your file types to be Verdurianised as well and so that you don't have to load the other files individually.
verdurianx.lng are language files: they have the meat of the localisable output. These contain translations for phrases such as "sorted by", "host", "bytes", "Daily Report", and so on.
verdurianxdesc.txt contain short descriptions of each report -- the ones you'll see below the title of each sub-report in italics. These are not necessary; if the file is not present, analog will simply not print any description.
verdurianxdom.tab contains translations for top-level domains such as .com or .de. You only need this if you want to change the output of the domain report.

In the above file names, x can have one of the following values:

1: This file uses iso-8859-1 encoding. This is what you're probably most accustomed to seeing. It's what Mark Rosenfelder uses on his website. It's also a sort of Internet default, so if your webserver serves pages without indicating the character set, chances are the browsers will assume the data is in iso-8859-1.
2: This file uses iso-8859-2 encoding. This includes letters with carons (but not i-breve). You'll have to configure your web server to send a proper header such as "Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-2" with these, or you may have to change your browser to assume that charset manually each time. (Though analog does insert a line saying 'meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-2"', but I think that configuring your web server is cleaner.)
7: This file uses us-ascii encoding. 7-bit only. I did this by starting off with the iso-8859-1 files (which already have digraphs such as "sh" for the letters with carons) and removing all accents and diaereses. The result may not look particularly appealing (for example, the ë in genitive endings turns into plain e, and the accent in the suffix -át gets lost), but it should be readable on pretty much any system out there.
8: This file uses utf-8 encoding. This properly represents "short i" with "i-breve". However, I didn't manage to get good results when I used these files with analog. Still, they're offered here in case you want to have a go anyway.

And here are the individual files:

Enjoy!

In case you're interested, I translated the files from the UK English (which I believe is the original). Here are the files I used (from the analog 5.22 distribution):

Where did you get all that vocabulary from?

Well, I had a fun time searching through Mark Rosenfelder's dictionaries (including his "secret" dictionary), but for many things I just had to make things up.

When I have more time, I'll put together a glossary of the words I chose to translate certain concepts; for now, if you're really curious, you can grab hold of verdurian1.lng and compare it with, say, uk.lng from the analog distribution.

I used a couple of affixes to derive new words, especially -eo for the action associated with a verb, -el for the result of "verb"ing something, -át for the process of doing something, and the participial endings -ec (present) and -ul (past). I also felt free to extend the meanings of some words -- look up the words I used for "domain" or "host", for example.

If you have any comments, then you can drop me a line at philip@newton.digitalspace.net.

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