[Scummvm-devel] Translate game language description?

[Johannes Schickel]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
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> Am 20.08.2010 um 18:52 schrieb Thierry Crozat:
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>> Hi,
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>> I had a remark from one of the person who provided a translation for the ScummVM GUI. He asked if it was possible to translate the languages in the game descriptions to the native language name (e.g. "Deutsch" instead of "German", "Italiano" instead of "Italian").
>> That would be consistent with what we decided to do for the language selection in the options tab. And it has the same issue I suppose, i.e. use only ASCII, characters, which means we might have to use slightly simplified spelling (e.g. "Francais" instead of "Français", "Espanol" instead of "Español") and some will either remain in english or use a transcription in the latin alphabet (e.g. chinese, russian).
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>> I suppose these are the language descriptions defined in common/utils.cpp. So that should be an easy change to do.
>> What do you think?
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> For me personally it would be important that I have an option to keep using all-english names for everything. I have many localized games and would dislike having them listed as "Deutsch" or "Español".
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Yeah I am definitely for having everything in English too, so in case
that is still possible I do not mind much.

I guess if at all, it would be a translation specific feature anyway,
right? I mean all our translations could (and probably do in case of
Russian for example) use custom fonts after all, thus characters like
"ñ" might not work for all translations in the end.

// Johannes