Wijitmaker Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 Tell us what you think? And you can make up a custom one if you would like, or add another option to the thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irishstag Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 These are alphabets, not languages... but I'd go for Latin, Cyrillic, and Hebrew, maybe Chinese. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkAngelBGE Posted September 20, 2003 Report Share Posted September 20, 2003 Ditto Ryan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix-TheRealDeal Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 I am wondering why Latin.... but, exactly what are you talking about here? Written languages in support of the game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av_nefardec Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 It's the latin alphabet ABCD.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janwas Posted September 21, 2003 Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 Hi folks, a little background: supported languages isn't just a matter of translation: it also affects hows text is stored in the engine, and how we display it.The easiest for us would be to use the ISO-8859-1 codepage - we'd only support all Western European languages (i.e. Latin-based alphabets). We could also use an 8-bit encoding for other alphabet-based languages, but we'd have to remember what codepage we're using when editing/displaying the text. (Hebrew chars and say French might have the same value).The full monty would be using Unicode - this is necessary if we want to support Asian languages. That would entail different text processing in the engine, as well as a special display algorithm (we can't pack 10000 chars into a texture - we would need to have a font engine render our text from .TTF).Now neither of these are problems, we just need to know up front. Hence, how much do we value translations into non-Western-European languages, especially Asian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted September 21, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2003 Yeah ditto to what Jan said Especially this part:how much do we value translations into non-Western-European languages, especially Asian? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phoenix-dragonslayer Posted September 22, 2003 Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 It really comes down to market...how big of a market are you shooting for...I'd say go for as large of one as you are able to..get thd product to the masses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
av_nefardec Posted September 22, 2003 Report Share Posted September 22, 2003 Well I certainly haven't come across many asian residents interested in TLA. Besides that, if they were interested, chances are they probably read/write good english because only a few of Tolkiens books have been translated a lot. To read up on Tolkien the point we have one would probably speak english rather well.But I'm definitely for Cyrillic and the Western European alphabets.Arabic's also questionable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CodeOptimist Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 I think that staying away from Unicode would be a good idea because it could make everything HUGE (filesize-wise).An "extended" version of ISO-8859-1 (what Jan was talking about) would be sufficient, I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeru Posted September 23, 2003 Report Share Posted September 23, 2003 If Hebrew is enabled, I will be willing to translate the UI to Hebrew.Keep in mind that since Hebrew is written from right to left, some screens may have to be flipped horizontally or otherwise modified Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeru Posted September 27, 2003 Report Share Posted September 27, 2003 Sooooo what's the verdict? (Ultimately this is a marketing question.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wijitmaker Posted September 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted September 27, 2003 We decided to go with Latin, Cyrillic and Hebrew. I need to talk to you about Hebrew though... we have some questions about word wrapping with text that is written from right to left vs. left to right.So if you see me online sometime, please messege me. Oh and if you read the programmers meeting minutes from today that would further familiarize you with the dilemna that Gee presented. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeru Posted September 28, 2003 Report Share Posted September 28, 2003 I need to talk to you about Hebrew though... we have some questions about word wrapping with text that is written from right to left vs. left to right. ... Oh and if you read the programmers meeting minutes from today that would further familiarize you with the dilemna that Gee presented.I read the minutes & the transcript but didn't understand too much. I need a clarification of the question before I can answer. (Oh and Hebrew is written top right to bottom left )So if you see me online sometime, please messege me. I'd rather have discussion this over the forums or e-mail; I can't promise to be online for extended periods this week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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