[Scummvm-devel] Translate game language description?

[Johannes Schickel]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Thierry Crozat <criezy at scummvm.org> wrote:
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> Le 20 août 2010 à 20:42, Johannes Schickel a écrit :
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>> 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.
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> Which means keeping that language description table in english in common/utils.cpp.
> But we can possibly add the language names in the string that can be translated. So if you keep the ScummVM GUI in english you will still get language names in english in the game descriptions.
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> Or do you want to be able to use the ScummVM GUI in German but still get language names in english in the game descriptions?
> This is only going to affect games that you are adding. I don't want to translate descriptions of games on the fly once the game have been added.
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For me I am always using english ScummVM (albeit I am German) and I
would like to keep english language names there, as in newly added
games should still use english language names.

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>> 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.
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> Which is why I wrote we might need to use only ASCII characters which are part of all the encodings. But if it is part of the translation system then there is no such issue. Or there might be if you select Russian GUI, add your game and then switch back to english GUI. Unless the translation is not done when adding a game but is done by parsing the game descriptions on the fly when you display the list of games. But I am afraid of the performances when you have a lot of games or are using ScummVM on a low-end device. So I don't want to do that.
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Yeah I saw that after I sent my mail too, sorry about that.

// Johannes