[knocker]

what about an integrated country info from each client? so plugins can see which language the user is able to understand (at night many english/swedish/danish/spanish speaking people join my "german" server).
because i have many messages written in german and many edited plugins i am sometimes not sure if everybody understands what some plugins do.
a combination of a country info and multi language support from the plugins would do big thing for some people.

i know it is for most people easy to speak english or understand most messages. but it is much more comfortable for my players to read their native language ;)
disadvantage of this system: coders would have to do some more lines.


another way could be a central language file which contains all messages in different languages. in this file you could allow certain languages. if a string is not found in this file for a language the standard english message will be used.

what do you mean?

[xeroblood]

that would be cool!! t would save me from needing translation for my plugin!!

[[RED-Designs]]

Originally Posted by knocker what about an integrated country info from each client? so plugins can see which language the user is able to understand (at night many english/swedish/danish/spanish speaking people join my "german" server). because i have many messages written in german and many edited plugins i am sometimes not sure if everybody understands what some plugins do. a combination of a country info and multi language support from the plugins would do big thing for some people. i know it is for most people easy to speak english or understand most messages. but it is much more comfortable for my players to read their native language ;) disadvantage of this system: coders would have to do some more lines. another way could be a central language file which contains all messages in different languages. in this file you could allow certain languages. if a string is not found in this file for a language the standard english message will be used. what do you mean?

I have thought about this. I think it should be done in a way where when they join they are presented with a menu on the left of their screen with "Native Language:", this would then make plugins which support multiple languages go by this language for that user.

Originally Posted by xeroblood that would be cool!! t would save me from needing translation for my plugin!!

You'd probibly have to just add some extra lines of code and rework some parts.

[devicenull]

At one time.. there was a project somewhere to have all plugins support as many laungages as possible - the client used a setinfo to identify which they wanted, and the server sent their messages in that laungage
I don't know what happened to it though
You could always check sv_region

[DopeFish]

a little unpraticle having a variable for every string. would be over 150 per language alone for warcraf3. and you would have to rewrite plugins to not send mesages to all players (id 0).

It's a good idea, but I'm not sure how good it would work

[[RED-Designs]]

Originally Posted by DopeFish a little unpraticle having a variable for every string. would be over 150 per language alone for warcraf3. and you would have to rewrite plugins to not send mesages to all players (id 0). It's a good idea, but I'm not sure how good it would work

I know its not practicle, but would do good for small servers just wanting to fit their other groups of users. I never said it wouldnt be work to add such support into third party plugins