[pcmaster]

Hello,

I am currently writing a plugin, which allows the player to customize his/her disconnect message.
Now, the message with the brackets is hardcoded (%N left the game (reason)) and I am looking to make it multilangual.

The best approach would be by getting the built-in translation, replacing the text in brackets and then suppressing the original message.
But, how do I get the built-in Translation?

There are several valve_*.txt ressource files (both on server&client).

Thanks in advance.

[Powerlord]

Last I checked, Valve doesn't do translations on the server side and instead send events or usermessages (possibly with the translation phrase as an argument). In fact, this particular printout is likely printed by clients after they receive a player_disconnect event.

Having said that, the language files are KeyValues files so, in theory you could figure out in advance which phrases you needed and cache them. That is, provided they don't need any additional information (i.e. the translation doesn't contain %s1 or such).

Slight problem: I'm not sure if the clients do anything else in response to player_disconnect, so hiding the event (by doing a pre-event hook and changing its broadcast setting) may cause issues.

[Dr. Greg House]

Originally Posted by Powerlord [...]Slight problem: I'm not sure if the clients do anything else in response to player_disconnect, so hiding the event (by doing a pre-event hook and changing its broadcast setting) may cause issues.

Every successful community does that. There's no issues to be expected.

[pcmaster]

Originally Posted by Powerlord -snip-

Yea, I first had the idea to simply parse those files as KV's, but it's a bit complex to do (valve uses the full language name, e.g. valve_english.txt and not short codes like EN).
As far as I saw, the leave message includes two parameters: %s1 (playername) and %s2 (reason).

[asherkin]

Originally Posted by Powerlord Having said that, the language files are KeyValues files so, in theory you could figure out in advance which phrases you needed and cache them.

Sure, if you want to write a KV parser that supports UTF-16 and conditionals.

[Peace-Maker]

https://bugs.alliedmods.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5011

[pcmaster]

Originally Posted by Peace-Maker https://bugs.alliedmods.net/show_bug.cgi?id=5011

Welp, seems like this won't be implemented anytime soon.
Too bad there isn't something like ::GetTranslation(char *phrase) on the Server side ..

[Powerlord]

Originally Posted by pcmaster Welp, seems like this won't be implemented anytime soon. Too bad there isn't something like ::GetTranslation(char *phrase) on the Server side ..

Well, part of the reason for that is Valve mainly uses the TextMsg usermessage to send translation phrases to clients for them to translate, although others exist for specific uses.

[Zephyrus]

Originally Posted by asherkin Sure, if you want to write a KV parser that supports UTF-16 and conditionals.

pretty sure it would be enough to convert utf16 to utf8 and use the kv parser on that, at least for 99% of the times. once you remove all those useless null bytes the built-in kv parser should be able to handle it

edit: also replace actual new lines inside open quotes with \n and use kvsetescapesequences