[Scummvm-devel] Enhancement to I18N

Johannes Schickel lordhoto at scummvm.org
Sat Aug 20 16:59:09 CEST 2011


On 08/20/2011 04:51 PM, Matthew Hoops wrote:
>
> IMO, it would be better to just use the string that was originally 
> translated by Cyan/Broderbund here than something thought up by our 
> translators (except in the rare case there is no translation of 
> Myst/Riven games, since they really spent a lot of time creating a 
> myriad of translations).
>
> Which brings up another point: Should the string be set by game 
> language or the GUI language?
>

Since depending on the GUI language the charset of the GUI font might 
differ, it is probably not a that good idea to setup the string based on 
the game language.

// Johannes




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