Translation Commands

The translation code was never fully finished for Delores and was hastily added right before releasing this source. Apologies if there are rough edges. All text that needs to be translated should be wrapped with the SAY(0,"Hi there!") or TEXT(0,"cardboard box") macros depending on if the text is said by a character or just displayed on the verbs or UI. Becomes This is best done by wrapping all text and leaving the id as 0, then creating a python script that goes through and finds all SAY(0,"...") assigning a unique number and saves them to a .tsv file. The ids must start at 11000. The .tsv file has four columns:: Note that is a .tsv (Tab Separated Values) file, not a .csv (Comma Separated Values) file. It's best if this python script is stable and can be run multiple times as you add new text without renumbering the text ids. Switching languages can be done by adding an option in Options.dinky and using that to load different Translation files. Most of the fonts in Delores don't include much more than ASCII glyphs. You can supply your own TTF fonts with the characters you need or you can use http://www.pentacom.jp/pentacom/bitfontmaker2/ to upload and modify The included fonts. If you want your translations to be compatible with other mods, or even make it back into the release game, don't renumber the line ids and make alterations only in the 'text' labeled column of the .tsv file. When working on a translation in the .tsv file, resist the urge to fix typos in the English text (the native text in the 3rd column of the .tsv file, labeled 'en'). These changes should be made in the source (.dinky file) and then a new/updated extraction should be done. This is because the English text comes from Translations_en.tsv and not the 'en' labeled column from (for example) Translations_de.tsv, from which the player will never see the edits. The 'en' labeled column, 3rd column of the .tsv file, is for text reference only. If you're going to add new lines, number them from 20000 and up so they don't conflict with the existing lines from the core game. Have fun!