Getting close to full international support -translators please read

[softcoder]

Here is a screenshot showing real Chinese:

[Omega]

Cool, but how come the text is not centered correctly in the buttons?

[softcoder]

I would like to ask translators to change the lng files to use UTF-8 text of their native language (I would like a few like Japanese, Russian etc) to do some testing. So if you are able to do this please let me know.

(The centering of text will be worked out)

Thanks

[Omega]

Oh, and another question: What font is used for this, and is it provided with MegaGlest, etc?

[softcoder]

We're using FreeType Font library here so it can load many types of fonts. In this case I am using a free true type font that handles unicode Chinese (this stuff would also likely work fine in GAE).

Thanks

[tomreyn]

In case this info is of any use to you: I recently had a glance at the Wesnoth source code repository and it's change-/buildlog. I'm not sure where exactly I read it but there was a log message saying which TTF's they use and why. One was a chinese font and the other was one which mostly covers unicode, both free of course.

[softcoder]

Ok we have fully functional new font system which works with numerous languages. I ask anyone who wants to see megaglest in their native language to update (or create) lng files for your language and email them to contact @ megaglest.org

If you are able to build from svn it should all work with both windows and linux builds (windows required new win32_deps.7z from sourceforge.net). I have placed an older chinese.lng in svn as an example of how chinese displays fine in mg (of course some strings are missing because the translation is an old one).

Thanks

[aqeeliz]

Will it work with Right-to-Left languages now? Like Arabic/Urdu?

[softcoder]

Yes i have tested a little bit with Arabic and Hebrew

Screenshot of Arabic (I used google translate for a few strings) to show right to left text:

[tomreyn]

While I don't claim to be able to read these, I can see that the first (rightmost) words on the first and second button match, which would be "Start" in english, so it seems to be working, and it surely looks good. I recall that we've seen players from Maroc, Saudi Arabia and Iran around, so chances are that one of them will be able to confirm this (but we may need to point them to this post).

The version info looks wrong to me, though, maybe this needs to be handled differently (exclude certain strings which are always in English from RTL?) somehow...

[softcoder]

Yes, now i try to figure out if the rendered text is all purely ascii or not and render appropriately, svn has the fixes

[aqeeliz]

In Arabic words join together, even though all characters are showing up, this isn't right. For instace, this is how the first word should appear (attaching image in case your computer doesn't show it right)

[softcoder]

I put up a dev version (windows) with the following features:

- improved fonts and rendering
- tap a 'group recall key' a second time within 1.5 seconds and the camera moves to that group of units
- Titi's hud changes
- Bugfix for workers building far away from the building
- Better internationalization support

http://www.soft-haus.com/glest/temp/megaglest3.5.3-dev_i386_win32_bin.exe

Give it a try.

[titi]

Still some problem with this

1. I think ultifd cannot get it to work without legay fonts in windows ( I have no details please report ultifd )

2. I ( ubuntu linux 10.04 32 bit ) still crash with the fontlib bug when I enter the internet menu :/ .
But I am shure it worked for me when I tried it before with sme version! So it must be related to the shown text.

3. in options menu the headlines have the same size as the rest.

[K]

Hi

In Arabic words join together, even though all characters are showing up, this isn't right. For instace, this is how the first word should appear (attaching image in case your computer doesn't show it right)

This is what I posted about exactly

About Arabic script bug https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8810.0

eg: in screenshot by softcoder, current "New Game" word in Arabic is "ل ع ب ة  ج د ي د ة", but the correct word is "لعبة جديدة"

[softcoder]

Please see this post for a screenshot and let me know if this fixes the problem?

https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8810.0

[K]

Please see this post for a screenshot and let me know if this fixes the problem?

https://forum.megaglest.org/index.php?topic=8810.0

I see ..., yes this is fixes the problem.

Thanks softcoder for quick reponse, and solving the problem.

[Zhook]

Will test it today in Russian.

[tomreyn]

Thanks for testing. It helps most when you report back after the fact (not before). Thanks.