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Who wants to translate!
Gear:
--- Quote from: DrenDran on December 01, 2013, 10:13:06 AM ---I don't really have any problems with the german itself, but there are a lot of words I'm not sure if I should translate.
e.g. I've left "bricks" as "bricks" every time. I know one might call bricks "Ziegel(steine)" but I felt like that would seem odd.
Also, translating "Administration menu" to "Verwaltungsmenü" doesn't seem too bad, but stuff like that runs the risk of spilling out of the GUI. There's not enough room for "Kopieren" next to all the check boxes on the wrench screen.
Little problems like that, that have little to do with actually knowing German.
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Yeah finding an appropiate translation that is short enough to fit into the GUI for every single thing is pretty difficult. A lot of stuff can be left untouched though.
Also you can easily translate "bricks" to "Steine" - it's short enough and it makes enough sense.
DrenDran:
--- Quote from: Gear on December 01, 2013, 01:22:36 PM ---Yeah finding an appropiate translation that is short enough to fit into the GUI for every single thing is pretty difficult. A lot of stuff can be left untouched though.
Also you can easily translate "bricks" to "Steine" - it's short enough and it makes enough sense.
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Yeah, but it means stones, never really though of these things as anything other than virtually squares.
Also, the few Germans I've met just said "bricks".
Anyway, that system mod of mine now fully supports languages.
For now you can just drag your lang files you're working on into config/client/languages but later on I'll include some default with the mod.
In the BE settings (small blue button in the bottom right cornor of the main menu) there is a "language" selector under the GUI tab.
DrenDran:
So anyway, who's made one?
Zeblote:
--- Quote from: DrenDran on December 01, 2013, 10:13:06 AM ---e.g. I've left "bricks" as "bricks" every time. I know one might call bricks "Ziegel(steine)" but I felt like that would seem odd.
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I've always called it "legos" when talking about blockland to anyone. Always. It even says "playing with legos" on the main page.
DrenDran:
--- Quote from: Zeblote on December 03, 2013, 04:56:17 PM ---I've always called it "legos" when talking about blockland to anyone. Always. It even says "playing with legos" on the main page.
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Odd, I've never heard anyone call them that. In-game none of the menus refer to them as legos. Besides it's a trademark, it should be kept out of blockland