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BZFlag is in the process of being internationalized. As a first step we will be able to support the basic single byte languages, such as German, French, Spanish, Italian, etc, etc.

I am looking for foreign language speaching translators that would be willing to provide reasonable translations for the words that show up in BZFlag. I have a file that contains the strings that need translating.

Currently I have a done a localization for l33t, (the only 'foreign' language I know). You can see it work in the current cvs by running bzflag like

bzflag -locale us_EN_l33t

There is a particial one for german that can be seen with

bzflag -locale de


If you would be willing to help, I'd appreciate it. I would just send you a file, and you'd fill in the blanks.

joinpa
agingsetpa
poptionsa --> guigpa poptionsa



This is going to be annoying, does this mean you have to reference some funky number or something when you want to use a string somewhere?

Nice idea. You can send me one, I'll translate into Dutch

My wife's Chinese so maybe she could do the Mandarin once you have support for 2-byte characters.

ohh, I looked at the code, I guess that isn't as painful as I was thinking it might be. I was thinking I guess of some microsquash code

GetString(IDS_BZFLAG_OPTIONS);
GetString(IDS_BZFLAG_JOIN);


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Ding!

You know we simply must have a pig latin version.

michaelh20 wrote:joinpa
agingsetpa
poptionsa --> guigpa poptionsa



This is going to be annoying, does this mean you have to reference some funky number or something when you want to use a string somewhere?

No, the original english is still in the source code.

Dutchrai wrote:Nice idea. You can send me one, I'll translate into Dutch

My wife's Chinese so maybe she could do the Mandarin once you have support for 2-byte characters.

Thanks!

Dutch dictionary file in your mailbox.

michaelh20 wrote:You know we simply must have a pig latin version.

my mum can speak pig latin but to me it just sounds like "balh, mumble, blah, mumble".

Terminatore

If the developers are so gung-ho on this International kick, then how about the following languages...

• Official StarTrek speak (Klingon, Vulcan, Romulan, etc...)
• Latin
• Egyptian Hieroglyphs
• African Bushmen (Swahili, Zulu, etc..)
• Eubonics

Of course I'm just kiding.

Dervish DuKot wrote:If the developers are so gung-ho on this International kick, then how about the following languages...

• Official StarTrek speak (Klingon, Vulcan, Romulan, etc...)

Klingon! They've actually made an entire language (there's dictionaries and everything!) out of it!

http://www.kli.org/
http://www.jumpstation.ca/recroom/trek/klingon.html
http://malun1.mala.bc.ca:8080/~wesselsd/kling.html

hey there are even search engines in clingon. big ones like google.

http://www.google.com/intl/xx-klingon/

Terminator, now that's a scary thought. A search engine in Klingon. :lol

I can translate it to Spanish. My mail is eismann at wanadoo dot es

MortimeR wrote:I can translate it to Spanish.

Thanks very much! A language dictionary file has been mailed to you.

I can translate into french, and into french slang

Valoche wrote:I can translate into french, and into french slang

Nice avatar!

I sent the language dictionary file to your sf account.

Valoche wrote:I can translate into french, and into french slang

Thanks! Nice avatar btw

I sent a blank language file to your sf account

Thanks Valoche,

Here's some links to view

http://www.chesco.com/~dbrosius/BZFlag/fr1.jpg
http://www.chesco.com/~dbrosius/BZFlag/fr2.jpg

Unfortunately at this time, BZFlag can't handle accents, so while they remain in the dictionary file you sent, they are removed in BZFlag. Hopefully we can fix this soon.

Thanks again.

MrApathyCream wrote:Unfortunately at this time, BZFlag can't handle accents, so while they remain in the dictionary file you sent, they are removed in BZFlag. Hopefully we can fix this soon.

Nice shots, they look good to me

I saw 2 things :
Author should be Auteur
Maintainer should be Mainteneur

Valoche

so is klingon 1 byte or 2 byte?

The proposal to put klingon into Unicode is her, but it was rejected. The KLI has some information.

MortimeR wrote:I can translate it to Spanish. My mail is eismann at wanadoo dot es

Thanks alot!! Spanish is now available:

See

http://www.chesco.com/~dbrosius/BZFlag/es1.jpg
http://www.chesco.com/~dbrosius/BZFlag/es2.jpg

for samples

Any one else have languages to send?

MrApathyCream wrote:If you would be willing to help, I'd appreciate it. I would just send you a file, and you'd fill in the blanks.

If you want danish too, feel free to mail me the file at:
dennis at moellegaard dot dk

[dmp] wrote:
If you want danish too, feel free to mail me the file

Thanks very much!!!

File has been sent

hey i could do it in slang if ya wanted me too