[Scummvm-devel] Fully localisation of the GUI

[Matthew Hoops]

Per the original mails on why this wasn't done
[http://sourceforge.net/p/scummvm/mailman/message/25597999/]:

> First of all our OSystem API's setWindowCaption is fixed to LATIN-1,
> i.e. game titles will still not be translatable properly, so the user
> might even be confused why his window title looks off, even though he
> setup a correctly looking name in ScummVM.

Since that affects the game title, you shouldn't include the
translated language name in the game name.

Also in the thread, the consensus seems to have been keep the language
names in English: see
http://sourceforge.net/p/scummvm/mailman/message/25599578/,
http://sourceforge.net/p/scummvm/mailman/message/25606070/, and
http://sourceforge.net/p/scummvm/mailman/message/25606316/

Furthermore (as visible in that thread): If/when the title translation
(including language) is in, is there now a way to change the name of
the game in GUI including the same characters as the current
translation charset? I don't believe the input charset issue was ever
touched upon again (per LordHoto's mail), but I could be wrong about
that.

Matt

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Ben Castricum <scummvm at bencastricum.nl> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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