On 4 August 2011 23:22, Michael Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > > 04/08/2011 21:59, sgrìobh Jordi Negrevernis i Font: > > I've tried to install the current stable version on windows (2.2.7), > and it's not that bad. The game starts with the locale of the OS. > > The problem is that you must **manually select** the locales on the > installation. If you don't do that, which is the default option, the game > will start in English. > > Apparently not. I chose German and Gaelic when I installed it but I'm not > offered a choice of playing in German or English, it just defaults to > English. > > >From what you're writing it seems that Freeciv looks at the locale of the OS and if the OS's locale isn't installed from the game it defaults to English (sorry if I'm stating the obvious). Other installed languages can be started from the commandline, but, well, how many average Windows users know what a commandline even is...? Not to mention that it is a bit awkward.
> > I think that selecting all the locales in the install it's the best we > can do to make the game playable for everyone who does not speak English. > > As for Windows, I think that the current solution (being able to select locales to install during installation) is a solution, providing there's an easy (i.e. non-commandline, clickable) way of toggling the locales. Installing ALL locales rarely makes sense, who is interested in playing Freeciv in all available languages? Now there is an easy way to choose particular languages without cluttering the disc with the data one will never use (i.e. unneeded locales). > I think there's more than one option but then I don't know the gubbins of > Freeciv > 1) Select language before downloading the install file, the game will > install in that language only > 2) Offer a default language choice during install > 3) Offer a language choice upon starting game > > Any of those would work from an end user point of view. I cannot think of > many people who will want to run more than one language on their system but > that scenario might be worth bearing in mind. > 2) would probably mean localizing the installer as well, for the sake of consistency. You choose the language at the beginning of the process and then the next steps of installation should be in the language you've chose. This is not a must, obviously, but it makes sense. Actually, I like the idea of being able to choose the language from the option menu (depending on the locales installed, obviously), so that the player could change the language before the start of every game. I have absolutely no idea about how complicated or trivial this is fromn the point of view of the programmers, but I think this would also work. I could brush up on my Spanish from time to time while having fun :) -- Hubert
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