Languages

evoke reads a request in English, German, French or Spanish. Each language is a pack of words built into evoke: the words that join two steps, the ones that ask for nothing, the pronouns that point back, the numbers, the days and months, the clock, the units and the currencies, the signs said aloud. There is nothing to install and nothing to set.

How it tells

The words of the request show the language. A request holding more of one pack's own words than of any other's is read by that pack, and by English always; one that mixes two languages, Zeig mir die Sessions von Ana, por favor, is read by both where they show alike. A request so short that no pack shows, wipe C02TM6PNHV29, is read by every pack, each holding back its two-letter words and the words English knows. A code, an address or a link shows no language.

What stays as typed

A value is always one of your own words, in your own language: a day, a number, a length of time, an amount, a time of day said in German is read as the value the program takes, and a text — a label, a note, a message — is kept as typed, never translated. The questions evoke asks you, its prompts and why's lines stay English in this release.

At a confirm prompt a yes or a no in any of the four languages does: y, yes, ja, oui, sí run; n, no, nein, non decline (Outcomes).

What why says

evoke why and evoke try name the language that read the request when it was not English, with the words that showed it:

  read by                 German, shown by «für», «den»

An English request says nothing of the kind. evoke calibrate and evoke test print a line per language other than English that read a record, with how its records fared (Calibrating, Tuning).

What a change to a pack does

A plan file carries the digest of every pack it was read with. A release that changes a pack refuses a plan file made under the old one as stale, as it does when a question's wording changes, and evoke run makes the plan again (Weaving).