RP addon: KayrChat

[Mehtomiel]

Kyrith from <Bladesong> on AD horde has made a very promising RP addon. I'll give this a try, though I've sent in a feature request to add LDB plugin so I could incorporate this to my UI without an extra floating button.


KayrChat will do language tagging without obfuscation for the benefit of fellow RPers;

• Example: Choosing to send a message in the Thalassian language will actually send the message in the Orcish language, but with a prefix of "[Thalassian]".
  
• The message will look identical to one sent using the actual in-game Thalassian language but players of other races will be able to read it, thus facilitating more inclusive RP.
  
• Limits non-common languages to specific channels (such as /s and /y) to prevent accidental language usage in guild, etc.
  
• Removes the 255-character limit from the default chatframe editbox and allows messages longer than 255 characters to be typed, which will be automatically split into multiple chat messages as appropriate.
  

[Mehtomiel]

As of now, the optional LDB plugin has been implemented, along with a fix that will hopefully let GHI users to see chat normally. GHI issues can't be completely corrected though as they are a result of GHI bugs, for which Kyrith can't do a thing.

As a few of you wanted to keep our secret elf language secret, I suggested an option to keep race languages unintelligible - this defeats the original inclusiviness goal of the addon, but allows it to be used as an all-round replacement for Babel and similar out-of-date addons. Together with the planned feature to emphasize chosen players' /say messages this makes KayrChat quite handy, and I will be using it myself if the GHI-say-hiding issues don't get too annoying.