Machine translation

[Anubis88]

Hi,

i'm wondering if there is an easy (scripted) way to make a machine translation of the game? I downloaded a couple of Chinese mods, and i'd like at least the basic stuff to be translated into English. I know some mods like Fire and Sword have "machine translations"; but i wonder if those need any human input, or could you just theoretically translate an entire file via google translate and then be able to use the language?


Thanks

[Gigantus]

Well, you would need something like the goolge translator and then insert it into a macro. Not an easy task I would think.

In the F&S case I would assume it's a manual copy\paste affair from google without further editing, mentioning 'machine' to forestall criticism of the quality of the translation.

[Anubis88]

Thanks!

So for example, could i do the same thing with the translation? How many files would i need to edit? For example to translate the menus, would it be enough to translate the menu_english file under "text" in the data folder, or would i need to edit more things? Because i tried it and it didn't work

[Gigantus]

Well, basically you need to translate every TXT file in a mod's data\text directory, then run the mod to make should it generates fresh STRING.BIN files. 'menu_english' is just that, the menu entries. I would suggest to also add at least 'historic_events', especially the custom entries. The default entries in there you can just copy\paste from your version.

If Chinese symbols are being used then you could run into the issue that everything will get displayed as question marks in the game.

[Anubis88]

Thanks Gig!

[Gigantus]

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