Cosmoteer Translation Project

Walt

Cube I have another question though, a lot of the phrases in our Dutch translation are currently in 'Not FInalized'. What does this mean and what is the difference to 'No vote'? Because a lot of the phrases in 'not finalized' also lack any votes.

"Finalized" means that I have locked it and no one can change it. I will probably not be doing that.

"No vote" just means no one has voted for it yet.

Cube

Walt "Finalized" means that I have locked it and no one can change it. I will probably not be doing that.

"No vote" just means no one has voted for it yet.

Ah, thanks. So currently "Not Finalized" Is basically "Done", got it.

Supergamer1185

Walt i can help with Arabic

Walt

Supergamer1185 Walt i can help with Arabic

Unfortunately, Cosmoteer can't render Arabic text. 🙁

Supergamer1185

Walt oh it's OK cosmoteer is still gonna be the best 🙂

clojelo

Walt Unfortunately, Cosmoteer can't render Arabic text.

Currently, Cosmoteer uses the same embedded font to render text.
Any chance the dev would allow the player to select from installed fonts at the computer?

Pros: Player can customize Cosmoteer UI with favorite font in native language
Cons: Extra load time for font assets. Less quality control over UI look.

rottis

masterofmath I can halp with the finnish translation

Walt

clojelo The problem is not the font, the problem is that my code for rendering text can't handle right-to-left languages or cursive languages. Arabic is both.

weirdkid

Walt you can just google translate it

Cube

weirdkid Did you even read the post!?

weirdkid

Cube yes i did i was just saying that you can go to google translate and copy and paste the words there. That senescence in Japanese. はい、私はあなたがGoogle翻訳に行き、そこに単語をコピーして貼り付けることができると言っていました.

Cube

weirdkid

Walt TRANSLATION TIPS
- Don't use Google translate or any automated translate tool because it will probably get a lot wrong. (At the very least, make sure you proofread any automatically-translated text first and fix anything that needs fixing.)

Ultranova

weirdkid Google translate is inaccurate and generally a bad tool because it does not understand context in any language other than english and will only do strict translations that are as close to the english translation as possible and would sound weird to a native speaker. Translators are a much more effective solution because they have experience with how the language works and what words work in such a context etc etc.

octo

well i would like to translate it to hebrew, left to right that is. if i just type anything backwards will it work?

Walt

octo well i would like to translate it to hebrew, left to right that is. if i just type anything backwards will it work?

Probably? Try it and let me know if it works.

Cube

There are currently a lot of words (2000+ !) in the dutch translation that seem to be stuck in the "not approved" section, is there anything we can do to progress them beyond that stage?

Walt

Cube There are currently a lot of words (2000+ !) in the dutch translation that seem to be stuck in the "not approved" section, is there anything we can do to progress them beyond that stage?

That's probably because I changed the vote threshold to 3. Just go ahead and finish the translation and I'll auto-approve all the top votes and add the top contributors as reviewers so you can manually approve things as necessary.

Cube

Walt Okay, thanks

Cube

Walt We have finished the Dutch translation. (apart from the words in "not approved" and "has no vote")

clojelo

Walt

Is there a filter to view translated terms contributed by specific user?
OR, a filter for newly (auto-)approved terms.

Use case example

Better translations were suggested for a ship part by individual
Other helpers wished to discover these new translations so that the improved terms can be consistently used across the board (eg in tutorials, tips, settings) without going through all terms.

Walt

clojelo I don't see any such filters, unfortunately.

Walt

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

Because I am hiring professional translators for the Modern version (too much text has changed since classic to get it all translated in time), I am ending the "free steam key" reward for any languages that are not yet listed at translate.cosmoteer.net. Contributions to all existing languages will still be honored as originally promised!

Even though I won't be using the community translations in the Modern version, I would still greatly appreciate your feedback on the professional translations before the Modern version launches on steam. So if you can provide translation feedback (especially for German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, or Simplified Chinese), then please go apply for the closed beta.