How to translate to Chinese?

[mikezang]

Because here is no feature topic so I open this issue. I like this game and want to translate it to Chinese, does anyone tell me which files those I can put Chinese in them so I can play with Chinese version?

[csaboka]

The game doesn't support translation to new languages, but it does take its localization from plain text files inside the "lang" subfolder, so in theory you could change one of those to supply Chinese translation.

The game comes with its own fonts, and while it supports Japanese, it probably doesn't include all the Hanzi to support a proper Chinese translation. It's worth a try, but don't get your hopes up. I'd try to change things in the file "lang/jp" in a text editor and see if it's handling the characters you need properly.

[mikezang]

Thanks for your reply. Can you add lang/cn if you have source?

[csaboka]

The game should already pick up every file from the "lang" folder. The only issue I'm seeing in the source is that if the file name doesn't match any of the seven language codes the game knows about, the new file will show up as English in the Options dialog box.

I don't see any point in changing the source code until we see that a Chinese translation is actually viable. You should really try either editing the Japanese file and adding some Chinese content, or starting a new Chinese translation file and see if the characters show up properly. If they don't, then it won't be possible to translate the game at all.

[csaboka]

Closing this because of inactivity. Feel free to comment if you can get some Chinese test text to show up properly using the Japanese file. I really doubt that the game has all the characters necessary to support Chinese, though.