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

[sinisterseed]

I just got a large batch of Romanian texts submitted in private and added them to the file - 500 lines in Engine Strings.

Always a pleasure boss .

[Captain J]

Saw some extra \x20 texts at puzzle-related strings on Hexen. I wonder what that is? Anyway just fixed some spelling errors in the Hexen part of GZDoom Game Strings, added \x20 part because it looked crucial.

[Graf Zahl]

The \x20 is there so that the parser does not strip the space away. These lines are part of a constructed text, e.g. "You have " + number + " switches left". So what you do in these cases depends on how spacing around numbers is done in Korean. Normally this should be done with placeholder substitution, but these are ACS string literals.

[theleo_ua]

The \x20 is there so that the parser does not strip the space away. These lines are part of a constructed text, e.g. "You have " + number + " switches left". So what you do in these cases depends on how spacing around numbers is done in Korean. Normally this should be done with placeholder substitution, but these are ACS string literals.

Here is what I got in 4.3.1: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code ... Cfuu9qTH7y

language=ru, hexdd.wad, hxvisit19, any puzzle switch button

Please tell me if you need full bugreport with XYZ coordinates etc.

[Captain J]

Huh... You know what? Nevermind. I just removed them \x20s. Because it turns out, the spacing on numbers worked fine as it is. After seeing theleo's reply, i'm not sure why it doesn't work.

[Graf Zahl]

The \x20 is there so that the parser does not strip the space away. These lines are part of a constructed text, e.g. "You have " + number + " switches left". So what you do in these cases depends on how spacing around numbers is done in Korean. Normally this should be done with placeholder substitution, but these are ACS string literals.

Here is what I got in 4.3.1: https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code ... Cfuu9qTH7y

language=ru, hexdd.wad, hxvisit19, any puzzle switch button

Please tell me if you need full bugreport with XYZ coordinates etc.

Yes, you are right - this doesn't work as intended.

[_mental_]

What's the convention for \x escape sequence here? Is something other than two hex digits supported?

[Graf Zahl]

Look at the strbin function to see what should be handled.

[_mental_]

Do you mean this case, or whole strbin() function? Actually, why do we have FStringTable::ProcessEscapes() ?

[Graf Zahl]

I haven't written that part, does it mean that it never calls strbin?

[_mental_]

Yes, only ProcessEscapes() is used for handling string table entries.

[Graf Zahl]

Ok, that explains it.

[Graf Zahl]

I think it's time for a new status update.

Recently Romanian got mostly done. It's still missing the minor games (CQ3, Hacx, Harmony) and parts of Strife but this will hopefully be complete for the next release.
Greek got a lot of text added over the last few days - it's still far from completion but looks a lot better than before.
Hungarian is the only language with some text available that hasn't seen any recent work.

Serbian is still missing the texts for the minor games.
Esperanto, Finnish, Italian, Polish and Serbian do not have the Stife texts translated either entirely or partially.

[Captain J]

Just filled up the extra empty korean translation slots!

[Graf Zahl]

Thanks!