[Scummvm-devel] Fully localisation of the GUI

[Ben Castricum]

After translating the scummvm.pot the interface still feels English. 
Mostly because the games and description are English. I've been toying 
around with some ideas on how to fix that. Basicly there are 2 things 
are still untranslated:

- The language names
That one is not so complex, a made pull request for it 
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/pull/531

- The game titles
The goal here is to have an interface which localises game titles for 
localised game variants to the language the GUI. So if I put the GUI in 
dutch, my dutch HES games are shown with their dutch titles. In all 
other cases, no translation should be done. I've got the code ready, but 
I am struggeling with the actual place to put the translated titles.
The easiest approach is marking the titles with _s() in the 
detection_tables and then translate the titles runtime, same as all 
other text. But I think this is a pretty dirty way. Since this way all 
translators are asked to translate the titles into their language even 
if no localised version exists. Another approach is making sub-pot files 
(per engine?) and only put the game titles in it which are known to be 
translated. e.g. engines/scumm/po/nl_NL.po. But this creates new 
challenges when creating the translations.dat file since we need some 
merging code somewhere in the process.

My question is if any of you have a suggestion on how to tackle this task?

TIA,
Ben