Chinese translation

[sunsolzn]

This is my first translation, my English is not very good, 66% translated, with some of the google translation. Font file using the windows bring simsun.ttc, in the display windows, where the normal 1024X768.
 
zh_cn.po in attach zip file.

[Mattn]

hi

thanks for your work - but please keep in mind, that you also have to update the wiki articles. We are using a merge script that is fetching the translated articles from the wiki and put them to the po files. So if you add translated articles to the po file, but not to the wiki, the next merge run will delete those articles from the po file.

see http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/List_of_msgid
and http://ufoai.ninex.info/wiki/index.php/Translating for more info

[sunsolzn]

from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=128192 get  wqy-zenhei font file.
This font provides full coverage to
zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk, zh_mo, as well as the
code-points needed for ja (Japanese) and ko (Korean) locales for fontconfig.

[Mattn]

ok, i've added it to the repository, thanks

you have to make sure, that this font is used - can be done in the po file (just translate the font filename to wqy-zenhei.ttf)

[Mattn]

in the wiki, please add zh_CN (not zh_cn) - thanks

[sunsolzn]

for 2.3dev
80%

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[sunsolzn]

update_po_from_wiki.sh
Chinese support for this flawed, I found that in the game, the line is too long this will not be able to show that because it seems unable to deal with a branch. May need to add man-made line breaks or change the script automatically to the Chinese or any other branch of the East Asian text

[Mattn]

can you provide screenshots please?

[kracken]

Chinese support for this flawed, I found that in the game, the line is too long this will not be able to show that because it seems unable to deal with a branch. May need to add man-made line breaks or change the script automatically to the Chinese or any other branch of the East Asian text

The line is too long because there are no whitespaces at all in one line in the wiki. At the moment, the game uses whitespaces to know if it can split a line in 2 or not.
The problem is that the Chinese sentence is just considered by the game like only one word. Therefore, there is no new line.

[BTAxis]

It doesn't parse \n characters? If not, it probably should.

[sunsolzn]

My English is not good, it may point not clearly.
update_po_from_wiki.sh should be no problem.
For the Chinese, in zh_CN.po, i use \n split sentence, such as tips.ufo's sentence.
if the tip is too long no whitespace, will not show in game.
In the ufopedia ,if too long, lower fps.
I see the Thai translation, use a whitespace split sentence.
perhaps in the wiki, an Note that is a solution to the problem.
Perhaps the sentence should be separated by a whitespace
   
By the way, Chinese comma and dot ,not ',' and '.' , is '，' and '。'

[geever]

What about splitting the text with spaces between words (as it's done in latin languages)? Is it wrong in Chineese? You have words either, haven't?

-geever

[BTAxis]

Chinese doesn't use whitespaces, typically.

[geever]

I know. I've read it somewhere (here/irc). but does it (putting spaces) make the text unreadable (for them)?

-geever

[BTAxis]

No, it'll just look weird. It's like NOT using whitespaces in English. You can read it, but it's just not right.