Translating GZDoom's text content. Read if you want to help

[Rachael]

Unfortunately Graf is right, there. FreeDoom changes too often to do proper in-engine translation support for it. If you look at the project from even just 5 years ago versus now, they look nothing alike at all. And the changes from 5 years before that are just as big.

So doing all that work now, for a project that ultimately targets simpler source ports (i.e. Chocolate Doom, prBoom, etc) where they cannot handle all of GZDoom's features simply makes no sense, unless the FreeDoom team does this work on their own accord. Things will change, and then GZDoom will be caught left behind with the old work, causing a patchwork mismatch as things are updated.

So while FreeDoom works perfectly fine in GZDoom while in English, having a localized version of it is a lost cause right now.

[mrPron]

The trouble is that now few headers looks really bad ("Choose skill level", "New Game" & "Which episode"), it's neither English nor Russian - it's just a meaningless garbage. Maybe they shouldn't be translated at all yet?

[SanyaWaffles]

That wouldn't be fair to the rest of the games though.

[Graf Zahl]

The text has been translated. The problem here is that the font is not compatible with the translated text. We simply cannot look after each single mod out there that doesn't care about localization (which is the vast majority.)

[mrPron]

Please give me an example of a compatible font. To at least understand what it should look like.

[Calinou]

I found this string with a translator comment in the language CSV, is that intended?

https://github.com/coelckers/gzdoom/blo ... 3055-L3059

[Graf Zahl]

The comment column is never used but would require too much effort to remove before exporting the CSV files.

[Gez]

Please give me an example of a compatible font. To at least understand what it should look like.

The problem with the font is mostly that we have no guarantee that the current Freedoom font is the final Freedoom font. By the very nature of Freedoom, it's unlikely there's such thing as a "final version" of any asset. We could perhaps offload the burden of maintaining Cyrillic fonts to Freedoom, but that's not really fair to them since it's out of scope of their project and would be hard to fit within the constraints of the WAD format.

As for what fonts should look like, take a look inside game_support.pk3:filter/doom.id/fonts/.

[Graf Zahl]

Precisely that. If Freedoom had a definitive 1.0 release, i.e. all assets are complete, no more changes outside of fixing bugs, yes, then we would consider adding official localization support for it. But sadly it isn't any nearer to that than it was 10 years ago.