Plea: Spanish characters support (& other langs)

[tonxabar]

Hi, everyone!

As you see here...

http://www.ftlgame.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=10649

I'm taking the task of making a mod to translate FTL to Spanish audience, as I made in the past with Alien Assault. Their experience opening the game to an array of new languages is having more gamers base... (Fact: their 25% forum traffic is from spanish origin. Heck! They had to open a spanish subforum!)

You should consider to give support to special characters: áéíóú ñ. (Well, now the game has them implemented, more or less).

These are the files I'm translating:

* achievements.xml (100% translated) partly support
autoblueprints.xml (100% translated)
* blueprints.xml (100% translated) (needs char. support)
* events_boss.xml (100% translated) (needs char. support)
* events_engi.xml (100% translated) (needs char. support)
* events_fuel.xml (needs char. support)
* events.xml (needs char. support)
* events_crystal.xml (needs char. support)
* events_mantis.xml (needs char. support)
* events_nebula.xml (needs char. support)
* events_pirate.xml (needs char. support)
* events_rebel.xml (needs char. support)
* events_rock.xml (needs char. support)
* events_ships.xml (needs char. support)
* events_slug.xml (needs char. support)
* events_zoltan.xml (needs char. support)
* nameEvents.xml (100% translated) (needs char. support)
names.xml (100% translated) (like María, José. Remember to include in next patch Kickstarters Chase Cagle and Steve Swink!!!)
* newEvents.xml (100% translated) (needs char. support)
sector_data.xml (100% translated) ¿needs support?
tooltips.xml (100% translated)

A few files show the special chars in the whole game. With achievements.xml there's a funny thing: it shows them in "main menu", but not when you earn the achievements playing, in game.

To make a quick work, I'm doing and saving the files with áéíóú ¡¿ ñ, leaving them as a copy. The originals have the characters quickly replaced with aeiou i (this last one as a cosmetic view).

I think I've seen a few things hardcoded that are impossible to translate (didn't find them in the files), such as a weapon/drone spreadsheet (maybe I'm wrong...).



And I don't know how hard it could be to implement that. But, Please? Please?? Matthew, Justin, could you do it??

One more thing... the ¿ is wrong in c&cnew.ttf !!! Needs to be mirrored!!!

Thanks for reading... If you want to contact me, you can drop a line here or at tonxabar, in gmail.com

[Vincent_Kazuwa]

I find it very sad that the game developers do not bother to respond to a volunteer who can reach a lot more people that creation is based on a 80% reading.

Too bad that will not be translated into more languages​​, because I know there are more people like me who refuse to buy you the game.

Sincerely ...

[DryEagle]

Don't expect the game devs to respond on the forums.
They are busy people.
However, if you drop them an email, they will reply eventually.
I've *never* sent them an email that didn't get a responce.
So, that is the best way to bring something like this to their attention.

[UltraMantis]

Don't expect the game devs to respond on the forums.

Partly true. The devs certainly keep an eye on the Tech-Support and Bugs forum. The rest gets less attention admittedly, but several requested features were added in updates.