Requesting for Filipino Translation

[vinzruzell]

Requesting for Filipino Translation

[cursorial]

In the interest of not creating hundreds of issues around translations maybe we should create a parent task to encompass all languages?

[8bitsDave]

I offer myself to work on a Spanish translation when necessary.

[tmarie5]

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[DevNebulae]

I am offering myself to provide Dutch translations if the framework is there.

[cursorial]

I remember watching something once about a guy that came up with a good way to handle open source translations. Essentially, he created a CSV document that could be copied for each language, in one column he had the English versions, and in the other he had the translation. We could store these CSV documents locally, and then when we add the option in for language selection we simply pick the corresponding document from the filesystem. This also helps to index which languages we have available to the user. It'll also be very easy for translators to do their job because they can open the CSV in Microsoft Excel or Google Docs, or even just a plain text editor and move down the list. I'd be more than happy to implement this functionality or at least put a framework in place since I think we'll probably need some form of game state management before we start implementing menus and options dialogs. The other thing to consider is that the menus are going to grow, so these translations are likely to be living and breathing as the functionality gets implemented. We'll have to find a way to keep older files updated. Potentially a build step to sync up all existing language files. Alternatively, we could keep them all in one file, although I'm not sure how hard that'd impact loading times. It could be a case of having a CSV file that gets updated as and when and then having a routine on startup to populate a database table with the translations.

[lcszulpo]

I offer myself to work in the Brazilian Portuguese translations

[8bitsDave]

Seeing what they have done with OpenTTD, for example, every language has its own txt file with the name of the string followed by a modificator and the string in that language, as follows:

NAME_OF_THE_STRING :{bold-or-whatever-modificator}This is the string itself in English

Seems a good approach, every language has its file, including English, and I assume the code refers to the NAME_OF_THE_STRING + the locale.txt as indicated on setup or .ini file. Also, that modificator changes behaviors against words with different genders, as it happens with Spanish and Portuguese, for example, typo styles as capitals, bold and italic and so on.

My programming skills aren't enough to know how to implement this, but it could be easy to translate just picking up the English txt and doing the translation. And keeping an eye on that English file for the changes and add ons.

[DevNebulae]

I personally like the VSCode configuration files and the way MineCraft has done configuration management. The way MineCraft does it is with JSON files which its keys get reduced into a single string (e.g. `minecraft.brewing_stand.name: "Brewing Stand"). You could also introduce YAML files which make it less syntactically heavy.

EDIT: with separate files for each language ofcourse. English would be en_GB or en_US and Dutch would be nl_NL.

[whphhg]

To extend on @DevNebulae locale naming suggestion. The first part of en_US is the ISO 639-1 Code language code and the second part is the ISO 3166 Alpha-2 code country code.

[vinzruzell]

Can I contribute filipino translation in here. Pls let me know. Thank you so.much.