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Multilingual idea!

Started by animator Jul 25, 2009 at 3:12 PM 3 replies 1.1k views

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Jul 25, 2009 at 3:12 PM

I had this great idea that would be useful on the GameDev site. It would be a section with translations of all the usual game menu phrases into several languages. Such as START GAME, EXIT, SAVE GAME, SINGLE PLAYER, MULTIPLAYER, CHOOSE LEVEL, and so on. They could be in French, German, Spanish etc. so then we could all make our games in several languages and at least the main menus would be understandable. What do you say, fellow europeans and internationalists? It couldn't be on the Wiki though since people might put offensive phrases in forreign languages and all sorts of hilarity would occur. For example: START.....Début EXIT......Sortie (I don't know if these are the correct translations cause I'm not French)

Sirisian

Jul 25, 2009 at 3:28 PM

Good idea; however, your best bet for getting a quick translation is probably just asking on IRC for most things. Even the gamedev channel has people from almost every country imaginable. Off the top of my head using IRC in #gamedev you could quickly get translations for Swedish, Arabic, Finnish, Dutch, Greek, Danish, and Spanish. Other IRC channels have more diverse regions where you can easily get languages from eastern Asia. Russia might be harder.

Sander

Jul 25, 2009 at 6:41 PM

What you want is a translation memory or a TMX database. Launchpad.net has a big one because everything that's in Ubuntu is in there (and more). Just upload your translation files there and the system will suggest translations for you.

alexcg

Jul 26, 2009 at 4:10 AM

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Original post by Sirisian
Russia might be harder.

Anyway, there are a few russians on this forum.

Sirisian

Jul 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM

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Original post by alexcg
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Original post by Sirisian
Russia might be harder.

Anyway, there are a few russians on this forum.

heh I was waiting for one of them to post :) Yeah but we never see any in IRC. We did get a mongolian before. That was pretty random.

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