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Re: Star Control 2 Localization
« Reply #15 on: November 20, 2004, 05:32:10 am »
Thanks to Andrew for the help and the app  Smiley I'll compile it soon and try to make the necessary special spanish chars with it.

My main problem stayed, though. The translated text appears in the game, but non-standard characters don't, even with the extra PNG files properly named (after each ASCII code)  and placed in the ".fon" folder.

However, I think I've found a tricky workaround to solve it. There are a few regular characters that the game doesn't use - at least a search through all the comm files didn't find any of them in the game text (",#,+,=,[,\ and ]). So I will replace those with the ones I need. Thus, 34.png (by default ") will depict an 'ñ' character - so should I write for instance in my translation 'España', I'd write 'Espa"a' instead. After the proper and readable translation, a 'Replace All' will do the job, just keeping an eye in system text - to make sure it doesn't get corrupted.

It might not be the right solution for western european language packs (if the core team has intended to do so anytime), but it works for a spanish version, and doesn't mess with the english character set. At last I can go ahead with translations without feeling them useless.

If any of you people find it a crazy idea, please wake me up to my senses before it's too late  Roll Eyes
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« Reply #16 on: November 21, 2004, 06:45:31 pm »
That's a ugly hack, I think.

You can try getting the russian pack from cvs here:

cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@cs.ozerki.net:/mnt/stuff/cvs checkout sc2-ru

There are several already translated things that *work*, so if it works for Russian, it *must* work for Spanish as well (I don't think sc engine is biased towards one or other language ;-))
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« Reply #17 on: November 21, 2004, 09:59:48 pm »
Actually you were right. That was an ugly solution.
Anyway, I solved my problem - which turned to be a stupid one, as expected. I got inspired by your russian translation files, specifically by the cyrillic character transcription in your txt files. Simply I wasn't using the right character codes, thus the font files were misnamed. That's why I didn't get to see the special chars. I was basing on a wrong ASCII codes table. Apparently, the codes for certain characters in ANSI coding are different... I'm not quite sure about it.
Never mind, anyway. I can carry on translating now, without weird workarounds, and without messing with the standard version files.

Thanks a bunch for your help  Wink
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« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2004, 02:23:47 am »
Mac OS X users who want to use this add-on have a couple of extra steps required of them, due to the fact that the Mac Launcher still doesn't do --addon

  • After running "make", rename the ru.zip to zzz_ru.zip
  • Ctrl-click on the UQM game icon and choose "Show Package Contents".  Navigate down to "Content:Resources:content:packages"
  • Copy the zzz_ru.zip file into this folder.

Then launch the game as normal.
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« Reply #19 on: December 01, 2004, 06:32:32 am »
I think there should be an "official" webpage about localizations on this site, where anyone can get info and upload a localization pack.
This would get more people to be interested in making a localization for their country; i would probably volunteer for an italian one.
See http://c-evo.org for example, it's organized very well...
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« Reply #20 on: December 01, 2004, 06:35:44 am »
Ehm... sorry, the link doesn't work... how do i make links on this damn forum?  Grin
However the site was http://c-evo.org
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« Reply #21 on: December 04, 2004, 06:58:04 pm »
I made a small change to sc2 sourcecode in order to support locales.
The problem is that in some places (like MakeReport()) functions from ctype.h (like isalpha() and isgraph()) are used, which won't work for anything but ASCII codes if the locale is not set.

The solution is to place a optional language.txt file in the root content directory (provided by the language addon) which contains the language defines (currently it contains just the locale). This way:

#(Locale)
ru_RU.CP1251

Can any of the developers take a look at the patch, and if it is okay, place in the CVS?
The diff can be downloaded from http://cs.ozerki.net/zap/sc2-rus/language.diff
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« Reply #22 on: January 05, 2005, 03:43:06 am »
BTW, just as a side-note:
The german localization team homepage is at
http://sc2de.berlios.de
The last major change was upgrading the branched sourcecode from 0.2 to the current sourceforge cvs-version.
The texts (including landertexts)  have been translated already, but the release still needs some testing, and correcting, especially since a few quirks following the upgrade to 0.3 need some attention by the "code-adjusters".

This message is only here to prevent the start of a second german localization project. One should be enough. Official announcements will follow "when it is ready".

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« Reply #23 on: January 27, 2005, 02:01:35 pm »
The german translation is complete now.

@UQM-Team
Do you want to integrate it in to UQM ?
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« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2005, 03:13:54 pm »
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The german translation is complete now.

@UQM-Team
Do you want to integrate it in to UQM ?

Ah, nice.
I suggest you add a new bug report for this, and we'll look at it.
We will probably want the languages as separate packages, which currently isn't possible with all the hard-coded strings, so integration may take a while. But I guess we could just link to your project page from our website for now.
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« Reply #25 on: January 29, 2005, 02:32:20 am »
Sounds great  Cheesy

... i add information about where you must do changes to support
chars over 136 from the fonts.
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« Reply #26 on: January 30, 2005, 01:20:34 am »
hmm strange, I only had to make one minor change in order to support characters with codes up to 255.
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« Reply #27 on: January 31, 2005, 11:55:13 am »
The other Problem is "isprint (ch)" in the files gameopt.c and melee.c

But i see, you working already on the integration of "setlocal".  So  i
dont't post it again...

The third thing is the lander report...  but i search for a solution at the moment.
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« Reply #28 on: February 01, 2005, 05:11:44 pm »
The lander report is also fixed by setlocale(). According to Meep-Eep, the fix is already in repository, so better get a fresh copy of the sources from svn...
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« Reply #29 on: February 05, 2005, 02:39:39 am »
GDP_Spaceman: Where would I download the necessary files?
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