[Scummvm-devel] Translations of the About text in ScummVM

[Johannes Schickel]

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Thierry Crozat <criezy at scummvm.org> wrote:
> On 13 May 2011 10:24, Max Horn <max at quendi.de> wrote:
>>
>> The idea was to move the "burden" of having to map HTML entities to each encoding to the translator, who would know best how to map e.g. ö to the encoding of their translation. But if that doesn't ring well with people, we can ditch that. *shrug*
>
> Oh I see I missed the point. I probably read the email too quickly.
> But would the burden of this mapping really be a problem if it was
> done by the software? I just don't want to scare translators away
> because there are many more strings to translate, half of which should
> actually not need to be translated, and some of those with html
> entities.
>

We could at least not do it in the ScummVM binary, since we have no
clue at all about what charset the translation uses.

// Johannes