Arabic (ar) Translation

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The Wisdom and/or Madness of the Crowds

http://ncase.me/crowds

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Arabic (ar) Translation #26

Closed AlexisDrain closed 6 years ago

AlexisDrain commented 6 years ago

Working on an Arabic translation: https://github.com/AlexanderClay/crowds

I'll see if I can flip the text to RTL and change the numerals to Eastern Arabic numerals, like I did to Nicky's previous game, The Evolution of Trust.

AlexisDrain commented 6 years ago

I can't afford to spend the time needed to do a "perfect" Arabic translation. So, I probably won't flip the text this time. The benefit of this is that I can get the translation out in less than a week VS spend a month working on it.

Here are some issues that I will have to solve if I wanted a "perfect" localization. I would clone this repository, not merge it to Nicky's, and do the following:

1- Change the font for this game because I'm not sure if all browsers will display the default Arabic font and in the same style. 2- Fix the paragraph aligning. I could turn on the <html dir="rtl" lang="ar"> tags. This will mess with the aligning for multiple objects, and I will need to go in the js files and fix the positioning.

tl;dr this translation WILL be released very soon, but it won't be as diligent as my previous ones.

AlexisDrain commented 6 years ago

Simple feature additions to my repository (hopefully Nicky will merge them to this rep):

Added "larr" (arrow left) icon in the css by rotating the "rarr" (arrow right) icon 180 degrees.
Added a helper function inside js/lib/helpers.js to switch the numbers to Eastern Arabic numerals. This function is called when the language is ar in peep.js (percent UI) & A_Preloader.js (loading done UI). So 3 js files edited.

AlexisDrain commented 6 years ago

The Arabic translation is fully done, and it's hosted here: https://alexanderclay.github.io/crowds/

I found out that if you wrap any text in <div style="direction: RTL; etc"> text </div> you could override any CSS, or JS styling and positioning. That became very helpful to keep most of my changes in just the ar.html file.

I added so many more "simple feature additions" that it became easier for my sanity, and @ncase's sanity, to just hardcode a link to the Arabic repo. So yep. Sorry, nicky! I didn't use your clever translation system! :D