Automatically Setting the Game Window Title Based on 'application/config/name_localized' Contents

[c3-hoge-fuga-piyo]

Describe the project you are working on

Various 2D games.

Describe the problem or limitation you are having in your project

While working on settings for localization, I noticed that the game window's title is always set to application/config/name, regardless of the contents of application/config/name_localized.

Upon examining the relevant implementation, I found that TranslationServer::translate is being executed for application/config/name. However, TranslationServer does not take into account the contents of application/config/name_localized, resulting in it not being properly translated.

Describe the feature / enhancement and how it helps to overcome the problem or limitation

Currently, it's redundant to have to add the same content in both application/config/name_localized and the regular localization settings.

Moreover, it would become possible to obtain the localized game title through the TranslationServer from application/config/name.

Describe how your proposal will work, with code, pseudo-code, mock-ups, and/or diagrams

Based on the current implementation, it would become possible to obtain the locale-appropriate contents of application/config/name_localized by using TranslationServer.translate(ProjectSettings.get_settings("application/config/name")).

If this enhancement will not be used often, can it be worked around with a few lines of script?

# At the initialization timing of the application.
var appnames := ProjectSettings.get_setting("application/config/name_localized", {}) as Dictionary
for locale in appnames:
    var appname := appnames[locale] as String
    var translation := Translation.new()
    translation.locale = locale
    TranslationServer.add_translation(translation)
    translation.add_message(key, appname)

# Setting the translated title to the game window.
var appname := ProjectSettings.get_setting("application/config/name") as String
var localized_appname := TranslationServer.translate(appname)
get_window().title = localized_appname

Is there a reason why this should be core and not an add-on in the asset library?

It seems that localization is considered in the implementation, so it might not be a feature omission but an unintended bug.

[AThousandShips]

Can someone confirm that the various platforms support all the different possible scripts for the name? Like Chinese characters? Otherwise there's a risk of the game running on a language that results in a window with garbled text of the title

[Calinou]

Can someone confirm that the various platforms support all the different possible scripts for the name? Like Chinese characters? Otherwise there's a risk of the game running on a language that results in a window with garbled text of the title

This should pretty much always work as the window title is drawn using the system font, which has a pretty extensive set of fallbacks available for various scripts. The only case where it may fail is with applications that don't have proper Unicode handling, but Godot sure does :slightly_smiling_face: