Adding a language

[mdziekon]

Adding a language

[mdziekon]

Do you happen to know if masked umlauts work?

Polish translation already contains diacritical letters (eg. src/language/pl/fleet.lang file, fl_acs_title entry), so I think there should be no problems with german umlauts. All files should already be UTF-8 encoded as well.

Sadly I have no real way of testing that without being able to fully add the language.

Recently, another person has started french translation and faced a similar problem. Take a look at Pull Request #104. The approach there was to prepare all required translation files, but all of them default to a simple import of corresponding english translation files. The translation itself is also not yet available in the game (we'll add necessary entries once the entire translation is done). Then, the translation process can be easily split into several PRs. I would suggest the same approach for your work.

Also I'd love to have some sort of guide or at least a philosophy guideline (What is the goal of the project? What non-goals does it have?).

That's seems like a really vague question to be honest, I'm not sure how to answer that besides the pretty obvious "this is an ogame-like game engine". Maybe a separate "question issue" would be better to answer that more in-depth (let's tackle one thing at a time).

I have also found some bugs, I will try to reproduce them, open an issue and maybe try to find a solution as well, soon.

Cool, I should probably prepare some sort of issue report template for cases like that. For now, you can take a look at my recently opened issue reports, see how I structured them to convey as much information in an organised manner.

[mdziekon]

Hi, thanks for reaching out! Great to hear that yet another person would like to contribute to the project.

I'll try to answer your question in depth a bit later today (maybe I should consider writing some sort of guide, could be helpful for other people). However, I can tell you that most of the translation work will definitely happen in the .lang files. There might be some quirks along the way (since the translation system is far from perfect, unfortunately), but if you'll spot some limitations I can always try to extend the system to fit new cases.

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Hi, thank you for your swift reply.
I will do the langs file then and send a pull request.
Do you happen to know if masked umlauts work? For example ü or ä. Or is there another way those should be masked? Sadly I have no real way of testing that without being able to fully add the language.

Also I'd love to have some sort of guide or at least a philosophy guideline (What is the goal of the project? What non-goals does it have?).
I have also found some bugs, I will try to reproduce them, open an issue and maybe try to find a solution as well, soon.

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Thank you, I've been trying to follow the example of @MickaelRod anyway, but as he had not added the language itself yet, I thought I'd ask. Will observe their progress and try to stick to their example.
Thank you!

[mdziekon]

I think the mentioned PR (#104) already contains a bit of the translation work (some really small files, eg. this one https://github.com/mdziekon/UniEngine/pull/104/files#diff-be7199062e8beac60c711f55d2b720ea), so you can already try this approach out. Further work is being continued in #105, which I'll consider merging soon to prevent it from getting too big in one piece (I'll have to speak with the author first to let them know about my plans).