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Thalassicus

Thalassicus

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I'm working on a major overhaul of the text files to make translations easier. I need help testing this, since I only have the English language version.

There are two ways to handle outdated translations:

A. Show correct information in the wrong language.
B. Show wrong information in the correct language.

Wrong information makes the game unplayable, so I'm designing the new system to present the most recent information (option B), even if it must do so in English. If a local language file says a policy gives 2:c5production: in Deutsch, and that later changes to 1:c5production: in the English version, the game will show the more recent English version. I will do this by adding a "date modified" tag for text, and compare the tags to see which is newer.

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Update 3: The translation system is ready for early testing.

The steps basically are:
1. Copy English to google.
2. Copy google to table.
3. Edit language text.
4. Copy table to file.

The language codes are:

Code | Language |
DE_DE|Deutsch|German
EN_US|English|English (US)
ES_ES|Español|Spanish
FR_FR|Français|French
IT_IT|Italiano|Italian
JA_JP|Nihongo|Japanese
PL_PL|Polski|Polish
RU_RU|Russkij Jazyk|Russian
ZH_CN|Zhōngwén|Chinese

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Detailed Instructions
Spoiler Instructions :

1. Click to install notepad++.
2. Click to install Civup and Gem, then find the GEM_Language table in the GEM mod folder here:

\Documents\My Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 5\MODS

3. Open the Research tab of the GEM_Language table (or any tab you want to translate):

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4. Copy the English "Date" and "EN_US" text columns.
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5. Paste in your language section. I am using Russian in this example.
Spoiler :


6. Copy your language text.
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7. Paste on translate.google.com. Set your language.
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8. Select the translated text, then copy.
Spoiler :


9. Paste in your language section of the table.
10. Edit any text which translated wrong, and save the table.
Spoiler :


11. Copy the green column with "INSERT INTO" text from your language section.
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12. Open the GEM/Text/Research.sql file with notepad++.
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13. Paste the text.
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14. Save the file as "Language_(your language code).sql"
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15. Repeat steps 1-14 for the other tabs of the GEM_Language table, or Civup_Language table, if you wish to translate the whole project.

16. Start a thread on Civfanatics to upload the file.
17. Compress the file(s) to a zip.
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18. Upload the zip file, and post.
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Ha, funny, that was just the discussion in the other German forum ;) (or rather, someone mentioned it).

I agree it's better to have a scrambled half English - half German version than one with wrong information.

It's difficult to do a translation of a mod that is still changing regularly but I guess, there's nothing around that in the end..
 
Here is a preview of my new design. I hope to complete this by tomorrow. Let's say someone called Alice wants to translate GEM into Spanish. She begins by setting a new LANGUAGE option to ES_ES (Espanol) in the Civup Options.sql file:



Alice now opens a new Language table which contains all translations. She copies the English to Google's machine translation page, then copies the Spanish back. This saves her time with a basic starting point for the Spanish:

Spoiler :






Alice can now check the Spanish to fix mistakes with the automatic machine translation. Once she is happy with the translation, the table automatically creates data for Civ V. Alice copies that data to a file in the GEM folder:

Spoiler :




Once she completes these steps, the new Spanish text shows in Civ 5. The most recent text will always display (English or Spanish). If I later change the English text for the "RECRUITMENT" civilopedia entry, it will override older translations for that one text entry. The Language table will have a section for every language.
 
Thalassicus said:
Here is a preview of my new design. I hope to complete this by tomorrow. Let's say someone called Alice wants to translate GEM into Spanish. She begins by setting a new LANGUAGE option to ES_ES (Espanol) in the Civup Options.sql file:



Alice now opens a new Language table which contains all translations. She copies the English to Google's machine translation page, then copies the Spanish back. This saves her time with a basic starting point for the Spanish:

Spoiler :






Alice can now check the Spanish to fix mistakes with the automatic machine translation. Once she is happy with the translation, the table automatically creates data for Civ V. Alice copies that data to a file in the GEM folder:

Spoiler :




Once she completes these steps, the new Spanish text shows in Civ 5. The most recent text will always display (English or Spanish). If I later change the English text for the "RECRUITMENT" civilopedia entry, it will override older translations for that one text entry. The Language table will have a section for every language.
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That's awesome man! it will help me a lot with the translations of your mods... Thanks again for taking time doing this!

I will appreciate it

But a pair of Question:

If I insert changes in civilopedia, it only affects when playing the mod isn't it?

This application is for everyone to do their own translations? or once I add the official translations of your mod, as these will be official until a new term is added by you?

I guess second option is the appropiate.
 
This will only affect players using the Civup or Gem mods. However, it will be easy for other modders to use the system I am designing.

If you give me Spanish translations, they will be the "official" translations visible to Spanish players of the mod. Someone could later send me new Spanish translations to add to the "official" version.


If this English is added on January 3:
'TECH_RECRUITMENT' 2013-1-03 'Training'

You can add Spanish on January 4, and send it to me:
'TECH_RECRUITMENT' 2013-1-04 'Formación'

All Spanish players will see "Formación". It will only show English if I later change that term to something new like:
'TECH_RECRUITMENT' 2013-1-05 'Recruitment'

Then someone else might send me a new translation for Spanish:
'TECH_RECRUITMENT' 2013-1-06 'Reclutamiento'


I completed the basic framework. I am now creating code to detect which version of text is more recent.
 
Thalassicus said:
This will only affect players using the Civup or Gem mods. However, it will be easy for other modders to use the system I am designing.

If you give me Spanish translations, they will be the "official" translations visible to Spanish players of the mod. Someone could later send me new Spanish translations to add to the "official" version.


If this English is added on January 3:
'TECH_RECRUITMENT' 2013-1-03 'Training'

You can add Spanish on January 4, and send it to me:
'TECH_RECRUITMENT' 2013-1-04 'Formación'

All Spanish players will see "Formación". It will only show English if I later change that term to something new like:
'TECH_RECRUITMENT' 2013-1-05 'Recruitment'

Then someone else might send me a new translation for Spanish:
'TECH_RECRUITMENT' 2013-1-06 'Reclutamiento'


I completed the basic framework. I am now creating code to detect which version of text is more recent.
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Great, Waiting for that ;)


PS: I think it is easy to translate if I compare the tags in the original xml and only change the values that affects of course I know that there are unique tags in your mods but the work will be less I guess
 
It worked! I am glad. I finished moving all text to the two language files, and attached them to post #1. You can start translating the rest if you want. I expect to have this finished by Friday January 11.
 
Do not translate promotion text yet. I am working on something which will make translating promotions easier. The promotion text will join together small pieces to form sentences, like how unit and building tooltips form.
 
Thalassicus said:
Do not translate promotion text yet. I am working on something which will make translating promotions easier. The promotion text will join together small pieces to form sentences, like how unit and building tooltips form.
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Excellent! I'll get it. Moreover, I believe that this translation will take a long time because I'll do it in my idle hours during work or at home. When it will be ready I will send you.
 
Do not hurry, it will take time for me to get everything finished. Hopefully, the automatic translations of google will help make it faster, then you can improve the results. :)
 
That's cool, I think I will look into this and translate to German soon, in case ppl are interested. My translation would not base on google translator but - since I'm German - be more qualified :D
 
我说汉语； 我很高兴帮你。
I speak chinese; I'd be happy to help.
 
The update today includes the first version of this new translation system. Civup and Gem each contain a Language.xml table in their mod folders. You can follow the instructions in post #1 to translate these files.

I estimate translating the project into a language would take about 30 minutes with the Google machine translator. I do not know how long it would take for a more accurate human translation. Human translation is obviously best if you can do that.

Did I spell the name of each language correctly:

Code | Language |
DE_DE|Deutsch|German
EN_US|English|English (US)
ES_ES|Español|Spanish
FR_FR|Français|French
IT_IT|Italiano|Italian
JA_JP|日本語|Japanese
PL_PL|Polski|Polish
RU_RU|ру́сский язы́к|Russian
ZH_CN|简体字|Chinese (Simplified)
 
Thalassicus said:
The update today includes the first version of this new translation system. Civup and Gem each contain a Language.xml table in their mod folders. You can follow the instructions in post #1 to translate these files.

I estimate translating the project into a language would take about 30 minutes with the Google machine translator. I do not know how long it would take for a more accurate human translation. Human translation is obviously best if you can do that.

Did I spell the name of each language correctly:

Code | Language |
DE_DE|Deutsch|German
EN_US|English|English (US)
ES_ES|Español|Spanish
FR_FR|Français|French
IT_IT|Italiano|Italian
JA_JP|日本語|Japanese
PL_PL|Polski|Polish
RU_RU|ру́сский язы́к|Russian
ZH_CN|简体字|Chinese (Simplified)
Click to expand...

Bold Question: A lot of time I tell you. . . google translate to spanish very imprecise.

I'm almost done, I've had a lot of work these days, I hope to finish it next week
 
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