Chinese localisation

[TheJackdawEK]

Hello, there Sean.
Recently I began playing DX MD and I am annoyed with the poor quality of all third party Chinese localisation mods, so I decide to make my own one with better quality.
Well, for now I only translate a very little bit of the strings texts. Would you mind making a Chinese build of the mod so I could give it to run to see if the mod works fine with Chinese as it is completely different from English or Turkish.

[SeanPesce]

IIRC Chinese support should work out of the box - do you have a JSON data set for the Chinese translation? If so, you can drop it in the retail folder, and then specify your JSON file in StringsJSON field of the configuration file (DXMD_Mod.ini).

If there are issues with font rendering, you can also try this custom font I made which should support all UTF-8 characters (make sure you add it to the UIFont field of the config file).

If you need more help, feel free to upload your Chinese JSON data set to this GitHub issue so I can mess around with it.

[TheJackdawEK]

That was weird, I tried to replace the Turkish.Json file with my Chinese one and modified the configuration in Mod.ini last night.
But when I launching DX MD, the mod told me it can't find the Json file and then launched the vanilla game instead.

[SeanPesce]

Can you upload your config file, JSON data, log file, and a screenshot or something that shows your directory structure?

[TheJackdawEK]

I made a mistake, Actually the mod telling me "Error parsing JSON at byte 925" when launching. So I reckon it is something off with the string,Json file, isn't it?
here is my Chinese localisation mod, for now I only did a little bit of the mission brief of System Rift.
With the Error notification and directory screenshot as well.
Cn Localisation.zip

[TheJackdawEK]

Somehow I managed to make it work!!! The only problem now I think is the Font, it keeps showing me this even with the custom font you made

[SeanPesce]

OK so the original issue was that your Chinese strings were encoded with GB2312, but the rest of the JSON file is encoded with UTF-8. Also, I believe the JSON library used by the DLL only supports UTF-8. Long story short, you have to make sure your translated strings are encoded with UTF-8 instead of GB2312. I know this might be annoying, but unfortunately it's the only way it will work.

I've converted your current translations to UTF-8 as a start; hopefully that helps.

As you've already pointed out, it looks like the custom fonts don't actually support Chinese characters, so we'll have to look into that. It should be possible though.

[SeanPesce]

Here's a temporary test DLL and font file with partial Chinese font support. It still seems to be missing some characters though; I'll need to look into it when I have more time.

DLL

Font

Example image:

[SeanPesce]

Update: This font file should have full Chinese character support.

[TheJackdawEK]

Greetings Sean, I gave it another shot with the new files and font you uploaded lately to see if it works.
You know what, it is working like a charm and no more missing characters. All I need to do now is to finish my translation project. Just wanted you to know that I am really appreciated for your support these days, thank you!!!
By the way, after I finished my project, could I post it on other sites? And I will credit you and Killerbeer for making this translation mod and extract English localisation strings for sure.

[SeanPesce]

You know what, it is working like a charm and no more missing characters.

Awesome; I'm going to add it to the official set of fonts in the repository then.

after I finished my project, could I post it on other sites?

Yes of course, I prefer that you do!

[KillerBeer01]

All I need to do now is to finish my translation project

It looks like you have a long road ahead of you... I'll try to make the editor I wrote into some presentable form, maybe you'll be able to use it as well.

[TheJackdawEK]

It looks like you have a long road ahead of you... I'll try to make the editor I wrote into some presentable form, maybe you'll be able to use it as well.

That is very kind of you, mate, thank you.
Also I think I may need at least half a year in only translation job, would be another story for proof-reading I guess, it is no doubt a long road ahead.