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Topic: Edited commandr.txt gets ignored!? (Read 2039 times)
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MasterNinja
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Hello,
I started to do a German translation of the game. I know, there already is "Sternkontrolle", but I don't like it much, because the translation does not really suit my expectations... For example they are tranlating words like "Captain"(to "Kapitän"), which in all Sci-Fi-Movies stay untranslated as "anlizisms". Same goes for some of the modules, "Landefähre" sounds like a vessel which travels to surface and then the passengers will step out of it, what defiitely is not the case for the Planet Lander, so I called it "Planeten-Lander", translating it word-by-word. Also Sternkontrolle is for 0.4.0, when you use it in 0.5.0 you have that star constellation names EVERYWHERE  .
Anyway... to the technical part:
First I did the the lbm-folder, like the images for modules and the starcon.txt. I figured out (by examining how it's done in Sternkontrolle) I had to use UTF Format for the text files, to get umlauts working (letters like Ä Ö Ü). Everything works fine (as addon-zip), alle the menus are translated and look good now (I had to redo much of the stuff because often words got too long to fit in the place on the screen).
Then I started to translate the commandr.txt. I decided to do the translation from scratch and not based upon the one of Sternkontrolle. I'm now half way through and wanted to test it, so I converted to UTF, saved, put in correct folder and zipped... But it seems to be completely ignored, when I talk to the Starbase Commander, everything stays in English. The console does not display any error messages concerning commandr.txt. The letters for the umlauts are also in place (commandr.fon folder).
What is the problem? Is there anything I had to check first, perhaps line length (could be line lenght, although I tried hard to get the lines not much longer than the original, they still may be longer overall. Of course I did not include new line breaks, because I figured out, each line break would mean a new "line" of text on screen, the old one erased. What could be other error sources?
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MasterNinja
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OH, I found the problem
It is supposed to be "comandr", not "commandr", for some reason I named it wrong.
Some "legal" question: because I don't have much experience concerning Open Source Licensing....
If I want to release my translation pack on the Internet, am I allowed to use parts of Sternkontrolle, especially the letters form the .fon folders, so I don't have do do them all myself? I think so, but in what way do I have to give credit to the creators?
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