translating hedgewars, a few ideas

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Sat, 2008-07-05 15:21

alzen

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Hi guys, i think that translators should also translate things like credits and map names(I mean names like "volcano" or "lonely island"); it would be nice if we translate every possible word in the game Smile . I thought about it and in my opinion the best way would be to add those extra things to translate to .ts file.

The question is, is it possible? I am not a programmer so I don't know what can be included in .ts file. If credits are in one separate file it's not so bad, not so uncomfortable to translate. The second thing are maps, as far as I know map names we see in game are names of map folders. So how should translators translate it? Write patch that will change names of those?

I think that translating would be much more comfortable if things like weapon names and other things form file en.txt(or pl.txt etc.) are included in .ts file. As I said before, I do not know if it's possible. Please let me know what do you(developers and other translators) think about those ideas.

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Sat, 2008-07-05 17:12

GeekShadow

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I like this idea, but these strings need to be ported to .ts file Wink Smiley

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Sat, 2008-07-05 18:01

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I like this idea for maps, but IMHO weapons are in another file because in game it's better use it in this manner. I'm not one of the developers, but I think it's for in-game efficiency. Isn't it?

PS. I'm the italian translator, pleasure to meet you Big Grin

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Sun, 2008-07-06 14:22

unC0Rr

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Well... what should I say:
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.ts files are used by Qt4 to translate program's strings, it's quite difficult to use them for translation file/directory names

.txt files used by engine is just a quick approach for i18n. The engine doesn't use Qt4, so it cannot make use of .ts files

[*]We should think out a way for i18n the file/directory names...[/o]

Sun, 2008-07-06 17:07

daimadoshi85

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We could create a file with different associations of the directory, when game looks for the map names it opens this file and according to the i18n it looks the right 'column' and insert the right name. For example the file could be like this:

DIRECTORY EN IT
share/Hedgewars/Data/Maps/Volcano Volcano Vulcano
share/Hedgewars/Data/Maps/Lonely_island Lonely island Isola deserta

and so on...

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Sun, 2008-07-06 20:05

GeekShadow

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I think it's worth using XML instead cfg for map so you can have :

Volcano
Blabla

Volcan
Volcano
Vulcano

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Mon, 2008-07-07 09:02

daimadoshi85

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Good idea, but then we need a xml parser for pascal I think.

EDIT: Sorry, I thought there was not, but here it is! http://wiki.freepascal.org/XML_Tutorial

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