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[ribez]

Mythos_Ruler, on 01 August 2011 - 01:49 AM, said:

Aren't games like Call of Duty still called "Call of Duty" in languages other than English? Maybe not.

yes, but 'Call of Duty' are english words, so the game mantains the same english name all around the world. Instead 0 is a number and A.D. are latin words (Anno Domini). In Italy, where the language is derived mostly from latin, i think it's more natural read the title in italian than in english: ˈdzɛro a di'

Just my thought

[SMST]

janwas, on 01 August 2011 - 09:26 AM, said:

huh. Just FYI, I do refer to it as Null Ah Deh, and have yet to hear any comment that it sounds ridiculous

Null A.D. sounds wrong to me, but there we go with different opinions.

Personally, I don't think the game title should be translated, as most games (at least in German) are not, either.

[Almin]

SMST, on 01 August 2011 - 04:04 PM, said:

Null A.D. sounds wrong to me, but there we go with different opinions.

Personally, I don't think the game title should be translated, as most games (at least in German) are not, either.

I second this as another lonely German here, because Null A.D. sucks indeed in our language!

Edited by Almin, 03 August 2011 - 01:54 PM.

[gadox13]

Hey guys, the translator interface should be a priority, i see that many people want translated the game in many idioms; this help to expand the game in the wideworld

Im editing the 0 A.D spanish wikipedia article , but hope translate the game!

So regards

[Pedro Falcão]

ribez, on 01 August 2011 - 03:08 PM, said:

yes, but 'Call of Duty' are english words, so the game mantains the same english name all around the world. Instead 0 is a number and A.D. are latin words (Anno Domini). In Italy, where the language is derived mostly from latin, i think it's more natural read the title in italian than in english: ˈdzɛro a di'

Really? I always thought B.C. was "Before Christ" and A.D. was "After Death"...
But i agree with you, it's more natural for us (Brasil) to say "zɛroʊ ə deɪ", especially for the older people who hadn't much contact with english.

[ribez]

Pedro Falcão, on 13 November 2011 - 06:47 PM, said:

Really? I always thought B.C. was "Before Christ" and A.D. was "After Death"...
But i agree with you, it's more natural for us (Brasil) to say "zɛroʊ ə deɪ", especially for the older people who hadn't much contact with english.

from http://en.wikipedia....iki/Anno_Domini

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Because BC is the English abbreviation for Before Christ, it is sometimes incorrectly concluded that AD means After Death, i.e., after the death of Jesus. If that were true, the thirty-three or so years of his life would not be in any era

[Baronsed]

Hello, I have finished to translate the 0ad wikipedia page in french. It is very similar to the english one : fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_A.D.
A few notes may be missing.
PS : would it be possible to send an email to people posting in this topic when 0ad is ready for translation ?

Edited by Baronsed, 21 January 2012 - 09:12 PM.

[Spahbod]

Is the game going to support non-latin based scripts? If it is, I'd translate it to Persian.

[quantumstate]

Spahbod, on 22 January 2012 - 11:12 AM, said:

Is the game going to support non-latin based scripts? If it is, I'd translate it to Persian.

The game already supports non-latin scripts for the unit names, so it should be ok to translate into Persian when we are ready for translations.

[Spahbod]

Currently all non-latin characters are converted to "?" in the game and caches.

[raymond]

I want to push these thread. The deveoping of 0ad goes very fast and I think the the right direction, except the translation support. Please implement this for max gaming experience. I would also like to translate 0ad to German.

Edited by raymond, 10 March 2012 - 11:32 AM.

[Catalanoic]

We need a translation system like this: http://www.rigsofrod...ranslate/view/1

Rigs of Rods is a free and open source truck/vehicle physics simulator.

I can translate 0 AD to catalan, and spanish too.

Edited by Catalanoic, 17 March 2012 - 08:00 PM.

[Pedro Falcão]

Catalanoic, on 17 March 2012 - 08:00 PM, said:

We need a translation system like this: http://www.rigsofrod...ranslate/view/1

Rigs of Rods is a free and open source truck/vehicle physics simulator.

I can translate 0 AD to catalan, and spanish too.

The Blender 3D team also uses a system like this, but with an SVN server to keep the files, instead of an online system.

[Spahbod]

Currently engine only supports Latin characters. I checked arabic, hebrew and georgian with no success. They all turn into "????" in the game and in the cache files. We must do something for this.

[feneur]

Spahbod, on 18 March 2012 - 05:12 AM, said:

Currently engine only supports Latin characters. I checked arabic, hebrew and georgian with no success. They all turn into "????" in the game and in the cache files. We must do something for this.

The engine supports those characters as well, it's just that there needs to be a font with them included added to the game

[FeXoR]

feneur, on 18 March 2012 - 12:41 PM, said:

The engine supports those characters as well, it's just that there needs to be a font with them included added to the game

Is someone at it or could that be a job for one of the massively motivated translators?

[Ykkrosh]

Arabic and Hebrew can't work properly since our GUI engine doesn't support RTL/bidi text (and support would probably be quite hard to add; I expect we'd have to redesign and rewrite all the GUI text layout code, probably using something like Pango), and also I believe Arabic needs complex font shaping support (our text renderer assumes each Unicode codepoint corresponds to a single independent glyph bitmap; I expect we'd have to change to using Pango/HarfBuzz to render runs of text at run-time to handle that properly, which should be less hard than bidi but still quite hard). Georgian (at least modern Mkhedruli, apparently) looks like it has neither of those problems, so it ought to mostly work fine if it's added to the bitmap fonts (need to add to the character list and rerun the fontbuilder script; but the current serif font (TeX Gyre Pagella) doesn't include those glyphs, so we'd need to find a decent free font and update the script to use that for the relevant Unicode blocks).

[Spahbod]

Can Pango be integrated with SDL?

[Ykkrosh]

SDL isn't relevant (we don't use it for anything except setting up the initial window and handling input) - I think we'd primarily just need a way to render a paragraph into a bitmap at runtime, which should be fairly easy with Pango + Cairo, then we can convert it to an OpenGL texture and render it. (Plus some caching to maintain decent performance, and some extra integration with the GUI layout code, etc.)

[majapahit]

When ready for translation, I'm joining the translation-troop

Edited by majapahit, 09 June 2012 - 11:26 AM.