Thanks for asking, Jonny.

I started translating to Spanish by hand, but ended up figuring out how to use the Google Translate API to translate the rest of it. Then, I figured I might as well try to add some other languages. The only problem is, LU seems to have a different font file for each language (English, German, and Russian, although Russian translations were never added). So, except for Russian, I set the rest of the languages to the English font file, which seemed to cause some problems with the box/missing/error characters you’re seeing on the screen.

If you open client\locale\locale.xml manually, like with Notepad++, you will see that all the characters are displaying correctly there. At the bottom of the file is all of the interesting stuff that I think would be the only way to mess with the fonts and stuff. My locale.xml has it looking something like this:

    <fonts count="7">
        <phrase id="FONTMAP_BOLD_NAME">
            <translation locale="en_US">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="pl_US">Times New Roman</translation>
            <translation locale="de_DE">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="es_ES">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="pt_PT">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="fr_FR">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="it_IT">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="ru_RU">Times New Roman</translation>
            <translation locale="nl_NL">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="ms_MY">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="tl_PH">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
        </phrase>
        <phrase id="FONTMAP_BOLD_STYLE">
            <translation locale="en_US">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="pl_US">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="de_DE">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="es_ES">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="pt_PT">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="fr_FR">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="it_IT">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="ru_RU">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="nl_NL">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="ms_MY">Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="tl_PH">Bold</translation>
        </phrase>
        <phrase id="FONTMAP_FONTLIB">
            <translation locale="en_US">fonts_en.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="pl_US">fonts_pl.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="de_DE">fonts_de.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="es_ES">fonts_en.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="pt_PT">fonts_en.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="fr_FR">fonts_en.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="it_IT">fonts_en.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="ru_RU">fonts_ru.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="nl_NL">fonts_en.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="ms_MY">fonts_en.swf</translation>
            <translation locale="tl_PH">fonts_en.swf</translation>
        </phrase>
        <phrase id="FONTMAP_ITALIC_NAME">
            <translation locale="en_US">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="pl_US">Times New Roman</translation>
            <translation locale="de_DE">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="es_ES">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="pt_PT">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="fr_FR">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="it_IT">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="ru_RU">Times New Roman</translation>
            <translation locale="nl_NL">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="ms_MY">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="tl_PH">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
        </phrase>
        <phrase id="FONTMAP_ITALIC_STYLE">
            <translation locale="en_US">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="pl_US">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="de_DE">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="es_ES">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="pt_PT">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="fr_FR">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="it_IT">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="ru_RU">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="nl_NL">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="ms_MY">Italic</translation>
            <translation locale="tl_PH">Italic</translation>
        </phrase>
        <phrase id="FONTMAP_NORMAL_NAME">
            <translation locale="en_US">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="pl_US">Times New Roman</translation>
            <translation locale="de_DE">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="es_ES">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="pt_PT">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="fr_FR">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="it_IT">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="ru_RU">Times New Roman</translation>
            <translation locale="nl_NL">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="ms_MY">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
            <translation locale="tl_PH">Arial Rounded MT Bold</translation>
        </phrase>
        <phrase id="FONTMAP_NORMAL_STYLE">
            <translation locale="en_US">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="pl_US">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="de_DE">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="es_ES">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="pt_PT">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="fr_FR">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="it_IT">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="ru_RU">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="nl_NL">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="ms_MY">Normal</translation>
            <translation locale="tl_PH">Normal</translation>
        </phrase>
    </fonts>

Perhaps we could figure out if these are really the optimal settings for each language. I only had limited knowledge of what I was doing. Also, I don’t have access to the GTranslate API anymore but I don’t think we would need it to fix this, if it can be fixed. Maybe try switching the font to Times New Roman to see if anything changes?

• This reply was modified 7 years, 11 months ago by Timtech.

I have no freaking clue what you just said? Or typed. lol

Glad to hear that, Jonny!

I had similar thinking when I set up the locale.xml but I don’t exactly understand what you did when you messed with the font libs. Could you explain what you changed in locale.xml or in the files in order to set everything up properly? That way I can update LU Translator for all the people that use it.

Thanks, and I’m looking forward to JALUP 🙂

Hmm, it seems that I’m unable to connect to your server right now. That’s not a huge deal, though, but I’m assuming that you only had to change the locale.xml and not add or change the actual game fonts? (Because that’s the only thing that the LU Translator script will update). Maybe you could upload it to pastebin or something.

Strange, still doesn’t seem to work. Maybe I’m doing something wrong. Anyway, don’t worry about it, there is no rush. Just wanted to see how you changed the locale fonts.