[BNW] French translation of mods

[Akallan]

Hello everyone, I'm new here and I do not know if this is the right category to post my problem, feel free to move it. I looked on the internet if other people had the same problem as me, but I did not find anything so I start the topic here.

I want to translate some mods I have for Civ5 in French. I managed to locate the text files of mods and I modified the texts in French, the approach is overall good and the changes are good, but there is obviously a problem: letters with special characters like "é" , "è", "à", etc ... do not display and create gaps in the descriptions.

I made two pictures so that you can see the situation yourself:




The first time I translated the mod, I left the code "<Language_en_US>", and there was this problem of special characters. I then changed the code to "<Language_fr_FR>" thinking it would fix the problem, but not at all.

Does anyone know where the problem comes from?
Thank you in advance!

Akallan

 

[SLGray]

Did you read this: https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/translations.409506/ ?

 

[whoward69]

Only way I've ever got this to reliably work is with numeric entities, for example

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<GameData>
  <Language_en_US>
    <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_DO_CS_STATUS_CITY_STATE" >
      <Text>City State</Text>
    </Row>
    <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_DO_CS_STATUS_ALLIED_WITH" >
      <Text>Allied With</Text>
    </Row>
    <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_DO_CS_STATUS_PROTECTED_BY" >
      <Text>Protected By</Text>
    </Row>
    <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_DO_CS_STATUS_QUESTS" >
      <Text>Quest(s)</Text>
    </Row>
  </Language_en_US>

  <Language_fr_FR>
    <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_DO_CS_STATUS_CITY_STATE" >
      <Text>Cit&#233;-&#201;tat</Text>
    </Row>
    <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_DO_CS_STATUS_ALLIED_WITH" >
      <Text>Alli&#233; avec</Text>
    </Row>
    <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_DO_CS_STATUS_PROTECTED_BY" >
      <Text>Prot&#233;g&#233; par</Text>
    </Row>
    <Row Tag="TXT_KEY_DO_CS_STATUS_QUESTS" >
      <Text>Qu&#234;te(s)</Text>
    </Row>
</GameData>

 

[Akallan]

SLGray : I have already read this topic. But I do not know if it will solve my problem, thank you for your help!

whoward69 : Thank you for your help too, your solution works. I did not immediately understand how your hint worked, but I studied it and I noticed that there is always the beginning of code "& #" and then the number of the letter wanted. I looked at OpenOffice and I found the same numbers. Your trick is working properly, thank you again!

 

[Ryika]

It's probably obvious, but still: It's much easier (and faster) to just write the text normally and then do a mass-replace text action for each of the letters afterwards.
Depending on the program you're using, you can even write a script that does the conversion for you.

 

[Akallan]

Ryika : Yes, I proceed in this way. And I finally could translate almost all my mods. What software are you talking about?

 

[Ryika]

In Notepad++ for example, you can do mass replaces by doing the following:

In the "Find What"-Field, enter: (é)|(è)|(ê)
In the "Replace With"-Field, enter: (?1&#233;)(?2&#232;)(?3&#234;)
Set 'Search Mode' to 'Regular Expression', and make sure 'Match Case' is selected (as é and É have different codes).

If you run that replace action, all three of those letters will be replaced with the code-version in one action, instead of having to do them 1-after-the-other.
If you create such an action that has all the letters that are specific to the french language and save it in a file somewhere, you can save an immense amount of manual work. You just write the text, the copy-paste both strings into the search fields, and let the program do the rest.

Other programs will have different syntax of course. I don't think that's possible in the SDK for Civ V, but of course you can just exit the program, open the project's Text-Folder in Notebad++ and do that mass replace before heading back to the SDK.

 

[Akallan]

Ryika : Thanks for the advice, I'll see what the software looks like, it looks interesting!