Gracenote API: Search and fetch contents in specific language - api

I'm wondering if there is a way to get data in specific language when using gracenote series_search or series_fetch methods.
It turns out that using ger field is useless... I still get data in english ...
If someone could help resolving this, that would be great! =)

Gracenote uses 3-letter ISO 639-2 codes to specify languages. The format is described at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-2_codes - Gracenote supports most major languages.
Thanks to your suggestion, we've added this documentation to our page at: https://developer.gracenote.com/eyeq

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J8583 project for parsing/creating iso8583 financial messages

I'am currently looking for an api for parsing/creating iso8583. iso8583 is a barbarian iso norm of raw string message.
I have found the j8583 project, http://j8583.sourceforge.net/index.html, but i can't found easy code example to parse a message.
Do you know good examples using this api ? or using another api ?
Thank you for your time
Perhaps my answer is biased because I'm the author, but jPOS can be an alternative. Take a look at http://jpos.org and its documentation (http://jpos.org/doc/proguide-draft.pdf).
Hope it helps.
Perhaps I need to reorganize/improve the docs?
The concept is fairly simple: Create a MessageFactory, configure it (the simplest way is via XML config file) and use that to parse messages with the parseMessage method, which receives a byte array.
The library includes a simple message parser which you can look at to get an idea. The test suite can also be helpful.
Here is the source code for the project that you can clone
https://bitbucket.org/chochos/j8583/src/master/
here is the XML Configuration Guide
http://j8583.sourceforge.net/xmlconf.html
All from the same person and framework

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Thanks.
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Convert Wikipedia Page Section to NSString Objective-C

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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boston&action=raw&section=0.
And what I'm trying to achieve, is to convert that raw data into what can be seen on the normal Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston.
Now, at first, I thought I'd use regular expressions to parse out blocks that start with {{ and end with }}. However, this proved to be problematic, and it deleted necessary text.
Then, I thought I could somehow find a wiki markup to html converter (present everywhere online) for Objective-C, but I had no luck there.
There are several similar questions on SO, but none of them seem to be clearly resolved: Getting Wikipedia Article Summary using NSScanner Problem.
So, to resume, does anyone know how to parse a wiki page into an NSString?
Thank you in advance.
Use a PEG WikiText parser such as kiwi: https://github.com/AboutUs/kiwi
You can find kiwi's parsing output rules here: https://github.com/AboutUs/kiwi/blob/master/src/syntax.leg
You will need to download peg/leg to compile the leg file: http://piumarta.com/software/peg/

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Thanks everyone!
If anyone is still interested in this question, there are a bunch of options for formatting comments and for text editor helpers.
To be brief, I've checked out a whole bunch of options - but I found one that I think is awesome: ckeditor. Check it out at https://github.com/galetahub/ckeditor

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Out of curiosity, what may the rationale behind these function names (found in Apple's Quartz Core framework) be?
ZN2CA11Transaction17observer_callbackEP19__CFRunLoopObservermPv()
ZNK2CA6Render9Animation9next_timeEdRd()
ZN2CA11GenericRectIiE5insetEii()
Do you think the developers somehow encoded argument types in function names? How do you find yourself putting "EP19" in there in the course of day-to-day coding? In what circumstances do such barely readable function names actually help you read code and otherwise be more productive?
Thanks in advance for any hints, and Merry Christmas!
These 'mangled' names are automatically generated by the C++ compiler and indeed encode type information.