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My friend Arisha_L is Russian, and knows hardly any English. She was on her phone, so she couldn't use a translator. I went to Google Translate to translate a message into Russian. This was the Russian message: Нажмите кнопку подписки на моем канале. When I went back to Minetest, I did Ctrl+C and just got gobbledy-goop. I'm not saying Russian is gobbledy-goop, I'm talking about random numbers and backslashes. Beast24 gave me a great idea. What if we had an in-game translator? I've heard people talking about some sort of translate thing, but I don't know much about it.

How about we simply finish the translatability of Minetest so we don't need any crazy hacks or Google Translate in the first place? There's no native mod translation system in place yet (only the main menu can be translated), so the fix for the problem would be to implement that.

I don't like your idea, it's too much of a hack and will only yield to low-quality translations (if any at all). And I'm pretty sure nobody with more than 5 brain cells wants to maintain such an unholy mess.

Wuzzy wrote:And I'm pretty sure nobody with more than 5 brain cells wants to maintain such an unholy mess.

But if they had 5 or less brain cells, they sure wouldn't do it :P

Wuzzy wrote:How about we simply finish the translatability of Minetest so we don't need any crazy hacks or Google Translate in the first place? There's no native mod translation system in place yet (only the main menu can be translated), so the fix for the problem would be to implement that.

There is still "intlib" that you can use for translating the mods yourself. Even tho it's not implemented in the game (the last i've seen into the default subgame, intlib was not present, please correct me if i'm wrong), and you have to download it to the translations to work...

Of course I know about intllib, I've been using it extensively for almost all my mods. :-)

But I will be more than glad to replace it with a real translation system provided by Minetest itself.

Wuzzy wrote:Of course I know about intllib, I've been using it extensively for almost all my mods. :-)

But I will be more than glad to replace it with a real translation system provided by Minetest itself.

That the game by itself translate the lines? Or that you can actually add translations without including any mod as intlib for making them work?