{"id":5929,"date":"2020-10-09T16:11:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=5929"},"modified":"2020-10-09T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T15:11:12","slug":"democracy-4-crowdsourced-translations-now-on-localizor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2020\/10\/09\/democracy-4-crowdsourced-translations-now-on-localizor\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy 4 crowdsourced translations now on localizor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was musing about how on earth to manage the people who are keen to help out translating Democracy 4<\/a> when I was pointed at this awesome website called localizor which seems to be set up to do exactly what I needed: Localizor<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is so cool. Its basically an online database for you to share the translation keys for your game, and optionally a single reference language (in my case obviously English) and anybody who wants to contribute can enter text for any of the languages you have listed. There is a cool progress bar and it also shows you which users have made the biggest contributions. Its basically awesome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This has cool features like showing you the google translate version of any string, so I guess you can check that people are not typing in absolute nonsense (or worse, something offensive), and people can vote on each others contributions etc. I think you can ban people too, if they are being malicious. Its basically a reall well-thought out system for doing exactly what I need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is a free trial, and then it costs a monthly fee, but its cheap, and a no-brainer really. TBH the biggest hassle was writing the code to output all my translated data (which is in csv files, and some ini files<\/em>) into the right format to be imported into their database. It works on the assumption of KEY = VALUE as opposed to some of my stuff which has KEY,VALUE1,VALUE2,VALUE3 etc, for a bunch of different columns of data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All-in-all it took about 90 minutes to write code to dump out all my text, and then manually submit the whole lot to the website. I also need to import the nearly-done fan-made italian translation I have, and eventually write my code in reverse to slurp up whatever format the site exports to and pump those values back into my own format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democracy 4 is, by its very nature, a global game, and its really cool to be able to leverage all the work jeff did regarding unicode, and vector rendering and fonts so we can support some often less-supported languages. I’m especially excited at the thought of Democracy 4 in Korean :D<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I was musing about how on earth to manage the people who are keen to help out translating Democracy 4 when I was pointed at this awesome website called localizor which seems to be set up to do exactly what I needed: Localizor This is so cool. Its basically an online database for you to<\/p>\n

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