Cube & Sauerbraten localization

by arthur86 on 01/16/2008 15:59, 12 messages, last message: 02/21/2010 23:13, 8142 views, last view: 05/02/2024 00:55

I want to know how to localize cube/sauerbraten to make it more accessible to people which who speaking english a bit or dont speak it at all.
I've created font file named ruschars.png and added some lines to font.cfg [
font rus "data/ruschars.png" 32 64 0 -1 5 6
//russian chars in ascending order
fontchar 0 0 46 //á
fontchar 46 0 42 //â
fontchar 88 0 44 //÷
fontchar 132 0 38 //ç
fontchar 170 0 50 //ä
fontchar 221 0 40 //å
fontchar 261 0 39 //³
fontchar 300 0 70 //ö
fontchar 370 0 41 //ú
fontchar 411 0 43 //é
fontchar 460 0 52 //ê

fontchar 0 76 44 //ë
fontchar 45 76 44 //ì
fontchar 93 76 51 //í
fontchar 147 76 48 //î
fontchar 195 76 54 //ï
.....
]
However, it doesnt work :(
What I need to do else?

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#1: engine uses default font

by MeatROme on 01/16/2008 20:04

to make the engine use it, your font should _replace_ default font-configuration!
To make sauerbraten display currently unprintable characters : you'd need to MOD the engine!
Compare
http://cube.wikispaces.com/How+to+approach+modding#tocHow%20to%20approach%20modding5
to get you going in that respect.
HTH

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#2: showboguschar

by M1kka on 02/17/2010 18:44

The tutorial for showing the unprintable characters is not working with the current version...
Can anyone please update the tutorial?

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#3: font usage

by Razgriz on 02/17/2010 19:38

I would go ahead and ask why sauer doesn't use fonts. Because there was a good reason, which in any case, i can't remember

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#4: ...

by |ice|sub-zero|L on 02/18/2010 23:42

Where as i love the idea of russian chars, i just have one question that comes to mind as far as i go... i don't speak nor read russian, and i know that what i am about to ask/suggest will be a huge pain in the butt... is it possible to add along with that mod a translator so when someone types russian words in, i can read them? but i know you people have enough to deal with, without me being a annoying fool...

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#5: ..

by degrave on 02/19/2010 06:02

|ice|sub-zero|L:
I think it be possible with google translate mod or with other web dictionary, but anyway 90% of russians write words not correctly or use slang so translator will be useless...

arthur86:
fontchar 261 0 39 //³
íå ïðèïîìíþ ýòó áóêâó â àëôàâèòå:)

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#6: ..

by Q009 on 02/19/2010 08:19

polish chars too! :P
¹æó³ñꜿŸ

:P

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#7: ..

by Tuxoid on 02/19/2010 10:13

http://www.lor-ng.org/message.php?newsid=5650

My jabber: tuxoid @ jabnet.org
If you haven`t jabber account, send me on my mail: tuxoiduser@gmail.com

P.S. Sorry for my bad english.

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#8: Re: showboguschar

by MeatROme on 02/19/2010 15:19, refers to #2

No, I won't. As I stated at the top of the page - these are just basic examples to show what - given a specific code-base (2007 'summer'-release in this case) - can be done.
If you're fluent in C/C++ you'll be able to do much more sensible/useful stuff with whatever changed code-base is currently available.

For SB to use more than the given ASCII subset (roughly 32-127) the engine would have to be changed, so all the postings above are off target in that respect:
you can only change the _appearance_ of the given subset, not the subset itself by using your own font image and config-file!

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#9: ..

by degrave2 on 02/19/2010 21:16

Tuxoid:
We can discuss it in sauerbraten@conference.jabber.ru

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#10: Czech language

by dolly on 02/21/2010 21:40

Czech language for Cube: http://mylms.ic.cz/index.php?text=34-cube-cz

Czech language for Sauerbraten: http://mylms.ic.cz/index.php?text=35-sauerbraten-cz

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#11: ..

by baby~rabbit on 02/21/2010 23:04

Supporting ASCII ISO Latin-1 might be vaguely justifiable, but supporting adhoc languages or unicode is not going to happen.

As MeatROme said - font files change _appearance_ of characters only, it doesn't add more or make them magically mean something else - because if it did then consider what would happen if you were to chat with someone in multiplayer and they don't have your 'special' font...

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#12: Re: ..

by baby~rabbit on 02/21/2010 23:13, refers to #11

I should add that of course all the menus, cfg text, etc can be translated to other languages... but there are also a lot of hardcoded strings within the C++ code that need to be changed too.

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