Originally posted by jb605
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We are in a similar situation. Our site HAS to work in english & chinese big5. We've seen a pirate site in china offering a version of 3.03 that works in GB and big5. It's free but I REFUSE to use pirated software so I will not download it.
Since they stole your code, can't you return the favor and steal their double byte search and interface mods?Comment
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considering this is an old thread, sometimes you gotta keep your head up high and not stoop to their levelManagerJosh, Owner of 4 XenForo Licenses, 1 vBulletin Legacy License, 1 Internet Brands Suite License
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Frankly speaking, I think vBulletin.com is irresponsible in saying that I have to go to vbulletin.org for help. I purchased this software, and you claimed that it work with multibyte characters, and now it does not work. And you ask me to go somewhere else for help? That is not the way business should be operated!Comment
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I found no help in the .org site, just discussions of that "chinese pirate" dist.
Sadly, I've discovered that the only version of VB that handles multibyte searches properly is a modified version of 3.03 modified in China (in Chinese) and downloadable from pirate "warez" sites in China.
AM I legal if I buy a VB licence and patch the pirates bug fixees into my purchaced copy of VB? Or do I be a bad guy and just use their package?
I'm usually very against piracy but in this case what am I to do?Comment
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Originally posted by hkgwailoI found no help in the .org site, just discussions of that "chinese pirate" dist.
Sadly, I've discovered that the only version of VB that handles multibyte searches properly is a modified version of 3.03 modified in China (in Chinese) and downloadable from pirate "warez" sites in China.
AM I legal if I buy a VB licence and patch the pirates bug fixees into my purchaced copy of VB? Or do I be a bad guy and just use their package?
I'm usually very against piracy but in this case what am I to do?
If it doesn't support multi-byte, post a suggestion feedback and see if it is a bug or can be added during the next build of vB3.ManagerJosh, Owner of 4 XenForo Licenses, 1 vBulletin Legacy License, 1 Internet Brands Suite License
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Multibyte Searching?
Just wondering whether the current stock vB3 can handle multibyte searching..Apparently some customers want that feature :-/
ManagerJosh, Owner of 4 XenForo Licenses, 1 vBulletin Legacy License, 1 Internet Brands Suite License
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No one from the vB team directed you to go to that .org site, that was from a community member. You are free to patch your source code in whatever way you wish, as long as it doesn't violate anything listed in the license agreement. I suspect the code changes simply alter the queries to perform a full pagetext scan using LIKE, which is not server friendly. The best long term solution is probably to use the Fulltext search option coupled with MySQL 4.1.1, which has multibyte character support. I can not give you any real world results with that combination as I have not had time to test it.Comment
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Originally posted by Freddie BinghamNo one from the vB team directed you to go to that .org site, that was from a community member. You are free to patch your source code in whatever way you wish, as long as it doesn't violate anything listed in the license agreement. I suspect the code changes simply alter the queries to perform a full pagetext scan using LIKE, which is not server friendly. The best long term solution is probably to use the Fulltext search option coupled with MySQL 4.1.1, which has multibyte character support. I can not give you any real world results with that combination as I have not had time to test it.
If I'm going to use a program I intent to pay for it.
HankComment
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Originally posted by hkgwailoI found no help in the .org site, just discussions of that "chinese pirate" dist.
Sadly, I've discovered that the only version of VB that handles multibyte searches properly is a modified version of 3.03 modified in China (in Chinese) and downloadable from pirate "warez" sites in China.
AM I legal if I buy a VB licence and patch the pirates bug fixees into my purchaced copy of VB? Or do I be a bad guy and just use their package?
I'm usually very against piracy but in this case what am I to do?Comment
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Install the MySQL fulltext search hack which can be found at vbulletin.org - that *should* work and offer some performance advantages as well as reduce database size.Comment
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Originally posted by ErwinInstall the MySQL fulltext search hack which can be found at vbulletin.org - that *should* work and offer some performance advantages as well as reduce database size.
We bought this package to replace phpbb (which does support multibyte searches) because we feel it offers a better user experience. Now we discover only the hacks found in the chinese "pirate" version fixes this search function failure.
But we read if we use these hacks we risk losing our licence!
I thought a licenced paid user was free to modify the code as they wish. The chinese search hacks may have been written by "pirates" but they do work. The pirates break the law by using unlicenced software copyright by jelsoft. I'm a paid licenced user. If I patch the pirates software modification (which is not owned by Jelsoft) into my licenced copy of Vbb what licence condition am I violating?Comment
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Hi there,
Thank you for the feedback which we take serious as we find that our clients often have the best ideas when it comes to new features and suggestions for vBulletin.
We take all suggestions into account when determining the feature set for new versions but unfortunately we cannot confirm whether a particular feature will be included in a version.
Feel free to email this 'patch' they apply to me through floris [at] vBulletin.com and we could review it.Comment
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