Localization

What is this?

• this is a tool to help with localization in games so you can have multiple different languages and have a system that then lets you select different languages from a main point without having to do in and change your entire code base.

Code View

  LocalizationHandler local;
  local.SetLanguage(LocalizationHandler::languages::English);

  std::cout << local.Localize("STRINGS.CHARACTER.GREETINGS.HAPPY") << "\n";
  std::cout << local.Localize("STRINGS.CHARACTER.GREETINGS.SAD") << "\n";
  std::cout << local.Localize("STRINGS.CHARACTER.GREETINGS.HELLO", new std::string[]{ "John" }) << "\n";
  std::cout << local.Localize("STRINGS.CHARACTER.COMBAT.HURT") << "\n";
  std::cout << local.Localize("STRINGS.CHARACTER.COMBAT.ATTACK") << "\n\n";

The only line that would need to be changed is local.SetLanguage(LocalizationHandler::languages::English);, so you would change the languages::English to something like languages::German if you had a German translation file and it would then change all the text in the game to be read from your German file instead of the English file as easy as that.

File Previews

English

STRINGS =
{
  CHARACTER = 
  {
    GREETINGS = 
    {
      HELLO = "Hello my name is {}, Nice to meet you.",
      HAPPY = "I'm very (happy,jolly,cheerful,merry,content,gleeful) just now. isn't it just a (lovely,pretty,appealing) (day today,night tonight)",
      SAD = "I'm not feeling (very good,great,well), its just been a( rough, tough, wrong, off, hard, unlucky,n awful) (day today,night tonight)"
    },
    COMBAT = 
    {
      DEFEND = "Stay back, this one's (powerful,strong)",
      ATTACK = "Take that you (monster,bully,bad guy)",
      HURT = "(ouch,owww,that hurt,tis but a scratch)"
    },
    SHOP =
    {
      BUY = "I would like to buy {} of those {} you (got,have) there.",
      SELL = "Hello {}, are you intrested in (some,any) of my {}.",
      OUT_OF_STOCK = "Sorry I dont have any items at the moment, come back (later,some other time,tomorrow) and I should (have more items,be restocked)."
    }
  }
}

German

STRINGS =
{
  CHARACTER = 
  {
    GREETINGS = 
    {
      HELLO = "Hallo, mein Name ist {}, Schön, Sie kennenzulernen.",
      HAPPY = "Ich bin gerade sehr (fröhlich, fröhlich, fröhlich, fröhlich, zufrieden, fröhlich). ist es nicht einfach ein (schöner, hübscher, ansprechender) (Tag heute, Nacht heute Abend)",
      SAD = "Ich fühle mich nicht (sehr gut, großartig, gut), es war nur ein (rauher, zäher, falscher, schlechter, harter, unglücklicher, schrecklicher) Tag heute, Nacht heute Nacht."
    },
    COMBAT = 
    {
      DEFEND = "Zurückbleiben, der hier ist (mächtig, stark)",
      ATTACK = "Nehmen Sie das Sie (Monster, Tyrann, Bösewicht)",
      HURT = "(autsch,autsch,das tat weh,es ist nur ein Kratzer)"
    },
    SHOP =
    {
      BUY = "Ich möchte {} dieser {} kaufen, die Sie dort gekauft (haben) haben.",
      SELL = "Hallo {}, interessieren Sie sich für (einige, irgendwelche) meiner {}?",
      OUT_OF_STOCK = "Es tut mir leid, dass ich im Moment keine Artikel habe, kommen Sie wieder (später, ein anderes Mal, morgen) und ich sollte (mehr Artikel haben, wieder auf Lager sein)."
    }
  }
}

French

STRINGS =
{
  CHARACTER = 
  {
    GREETINGS = 
    {
      HELLO = "Bonjour, je m'appelle {}, Ravi de vous rencontrer.",
      HAPPY = "Je suis très (heureux,jovial,joyeux,content,gai) en ce moment. N'est-ce pas juste un (charmant,joli,attirant) (jour aujourd'hui,nuit ce soir)",
      SAD = "Je ne me sens pas (très bien,super,bien), c'était juste un (rude,dur,mal,off,dur,malchanceux,n horrible) (jour aujourd'hui,nuit ce soir)"
    },
    COMBAT = 
    {
      DEFEND = "Restez en arrière, celui-ci est (puissant,fort)",
      ATTACK = "Prends ça toi (monstre,brute,méchant)",
      HURT = "(ouch, owww,ça fait mal,ce n'est qu'une égratignure)"
    },
		SHOP =
    {
      BUY = "Je voudrais acheter {} de ces {} que vous (avez, avez) là.",
      SELL = "Bonjour {}, êtes-vous intéressé par (certains, n'importe lesquels) de mes {}.",
      OUT_OF_STOCK = "Désolé, je n'ai pas d'articles pour le moment, revenez (plus tard, une autre fois, demain) et je devrais (avoir plus d'articles, être réapprovisionné)."
    }
  }
}

the {} symbolize parts where a varible will be subbed into it's place, and parts surrounded by () and seperated by , are parts that will be randomly chosen.