SpaceEngineer wrote:

Hi guys, thank for offer! You can do translation as like Mosfet said, by simply copying and renaming any existing location file, open it in Notepad++ and starting replacing text lines. Localization files are located in the data/locale/ folder and are named language-gui.cfg

The important thing is that SE uses ANSI encoding, so you must select the code page corresponding to your language in the menu:

code.png

Encoding must be Windows-XXXX. Make sure that your language have such encoding. Languages with more than 128 national characters does not (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic). Currently SE supports only these code pages, because SE needs a pre-drawn font textures to render fonts:

Windows-1250
Windows-1251
Windows-1252
Windows-1254

And you should specify it in the beginning of the locale file:
FontConfig "win1251.cfg"

If you need some other code page, make me know, I can draw one using my Photoshop templates.

Menu textures does not need a translation, in 0.981 they are removed and replaced with a hi-resolution font texture (and the text on buttons are now in the locale file).

Names of a celestial objects are saved in a different file, language-db.cfg, and are more complex to add. Open any existing file to see the format. But you can do this in-game: select an object, open Wiki for it (press [I]), and click "Edit". Enter the name, check the "Real object", type some description if you wish, and click "Save". SE saves changes to language-db.cfg file, making a backup file language-db.bak first. You may revert changes by renaming language-db.bak, but keep in mind that this file got overwritten in the new SE session (ie after restart of SE).

If you are going to edit the language-db.cfg file manually in Notepad++, make sure you setup the same encoding for your language as for locale file language-gui.cfg.

abakr99 wrote:

SpaceEngineer wrote:

Hi guys, thank for offer! You can do translation as like Mosfet said, by simply copying and renaming any existing location file, open it in Notepad++ and starting replacing text lines. Localization files are located in the data/locale/ folder and are named language-gui.cfg

The important thing is that SE uses ANSI encoding, so you must select the code page corresponding to your language in the menu:

code.png

Encoding must be Windows-XXXX. Make sure that your language have such encoding. Languages with more than 128 national characters does not (Chinese, Japanese, Arabic). Currently SE supports only these code pages, because SE needs a pre-drawn font textures to render fonts:

Windows-1250
Windows-1251
Windows-1252
Windows-1254

And you should specify it in the beginning of the locale file:
FontConfig "win1251.cfg"

If you need some other code page, make me know, I can draw one using my Photoshop templates.

Menu textures does not need a translation, in 0.981 they are removed and replaced with a hi-resolution font texture (and the text on buttons are now in the locale file).

Names of a celestial objects are saved in a different file, language-db.cfg, and are more complex to add. Open any existing file to see the format. But you can do this in-game: select an object, open Wiki for it (press [I]), and click "Edit". Enter the name, check the "Real object", type some description if you wish, and click "Save". SE saves changes to language-db.cfg file, making a backup file language-db.bak first. You may revert changes by renaming language-db.bak, but keep in mind that this file got overwritten in the new SE session (ie after restart of SE).

If you are going to edit the language-db.cfg file manually in Notepad++, make sure you setup the same encoding for your language as for locale file language-gui.cfg.

So translating to Arabic isn't possible in Space Engine currently?

abakr99 wrote:

Alright thanks for the info 

Martin wrote:

And after the translation what do we do? 

Marko S. wrote:

Martin wrote:

And after the translation what do we do? 

Submit it here or pm SpaceEngineer. At least that's what I will do xD

davidrn wrote:

Source of the post So, It'd be okay if I just upload the -gui file of each language?

Marko S. wrote:

Source of the post there is Latin and Cyrillic Serbian. Is it problem if you make two options in the language bar?

pfjarschel wrote:

Source of the post Late for the party, but I can help with brazilian portuguese (PT-BR) as well! Also, depending on the general interest, I can translate my Flight School Manual!

SpaceEngineer wrote:

Source of the post You can make two translation, calling them ser-lat and ser-cyr for example.

Marko S. wrote:

Source of the post When I finish translating, in which version is it going to be included?

Marko S. wrote:

Source of the post And also, do I need to translate just eng-db.cfg?

Marko S. wrote:

Source of the post And eng-menu.png is that high resolution texture you were talking about?

JackDole wrote:

Source of the post If you make two translations ('ser-lat-gui.cfg' and 'ser-cyr-gui.cfg'), they are both included.