Add A Proper Translation Support
I have been working on translations for a while, that would be cool if there will be a proper language support instead of doing them hackily. Currently there are problems with them:
1-Arabic Support including Right to Left and Positions of letter.
2-True Type or another better than current Font support, rather than games FNT files. Even i can edit FNTs i'm not happy with them.
3-A way to change languages ingame. Requirement of restart wouldn't be a problem. A dropdown menu on main options page should be OK.
4-Ini Coding. Possibly in own ini but uimd may do it too.
Here is some things about ini:
Rules:
[General]
SupportLanguage
UI or Special Ini
[Languages]
0=English
1=Arabic
2=Turkish
3=German
[English]
UIName:LANG:ENG
Mixes=Langmd, Language ;For Cameos and Sounds.
Csf=RA2MD.csf
IsArabic=no ;Special handling for Arabic.
Font=Game.FNT
IsFontFNT=yes ; Maybe it should detect itself.
[Arabic]
UIName=LANG:AR
Mixes=Langar
Csf=RA2AR.csf
IsArabic=yes
Font=Arabic.TTF
IsFontFNT=no
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XCC may cause problems with Arabic too but it is not your problem. I hope i can write arabic in it. Haven't tried yet.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Mustafa Alperen SEKİ
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
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Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
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Making the UI provide language settings would be the easiest part, but properly supporting LTR and RTL languages, with full support for languages with lots of diacritics, letters connecting to each other and so on would require a completely new font engine, which then would have to be used everywhere (either by making it backwards compatible with the original functions in some way or by replacing every text rendering with new code). This only solves half the problem though: The UI would have to be changed (SW Timers, Message list), as well as flipping all dialogs' controls. And the controls itself, so option and check boxes have the check on the left side, not the right, for example. (It's still not where it ends to support RTL languages fully, though: New loading screens and so on would have to be created, mirroring the current ones.)
Too big change for me. -AlexB
I can understand that, i just want to be sure that i'm not doing the Crowdin translations for nothing. I have no hurry with that, translations are far from being completed. If we do that i wouldn't be the only thing that we complately rewrote, but this is really bigger than others, i can see. That wouod be cool if you start with ingame language option. But as i said no need to hurry, i couldn't even put all strings on crowdin to translate. -MustaphaTR
