Add Thai language support for version 1.8.0

[RavenChz]

Hello! Thank you so much for your hard work and the recent v0.1.9 update.

With the game now updated to version 1.8.0, official Thai language support is natively included in the game files. However, the port doesn't currently support or expose this language option.

Would it be possible to add official support for the Thai language (THth) or implement font/text rendering support for it in future updates?

Thank you so much for your continuous improvements to the project!

[adriadam10]

Thanks for the report! You're right: the game's updates added Polish (1.5.0) and Thai (1.7.0), and the port only exposed the languages of 1.0.0.

It is now in main and will come with the next version (0.1.10): with a 1.8.0 dump, Settings > Game > Language lists Polish and Thai, and a system set to one of them picks it automatically. A 1.0.0 dump stays as before. The menu shows the name in Thai with a system font (Noto Sans Thai on Linux, Leelawadee UI/Tahoma on Windows).

One caveat: I could only test this against a 1.0.0 dump (no Thai texts in it), so the Thai text rendering inside the game itself is untested. If you try the next version and something shows as boxes or the language doesn't start, please post the log here.

[adriadam10]

Update: Thai is now also a language of the port's own menus and launcher (the 20th), not only a game language. It is in main and will come with the next release (0.1.10). Settings > Menu > Language lists it, and a system set to Thai picks it automatically.

The translation is our first version (the game's own mode and cup names in it are unverified), so corrections from native speakers are very welcome: edit i18n/th.po and open a pull request.

[RavenChz]

Thank you so much for adding Thai support so quickly in v0.1.10!

I just tested v0.1.10 on Windows using a fresh setup with my 1.8.0 game dump, and I'd like to report two issues I encountered:

1. In-game Language: Even after setting up with the 1.8.0 dump and selecting Thai, the game itself still displays in English.
2. Launcher UI Font/Encoding: Inside the in-game overlay menu, the Thai translation displays properly. However, after closing the game and restarting mkw.exe, the main Launcher screen displays all Thai text as ????????? (question marks).

I am attaching a screenshot of the Launcher issue and my mkw.log file below to help with debugging. Thank you again for your hard work!

mkw.log

[adriadam10]

Thanks for testing it and for the log and screenshot, both helped.

Launcher showing ????: fixed in main, it will come with the next version (0.1.11). The start screen's title, Play button and page names used a font size that only had Latin and Cyrillic letters; only the small text took the Thai system font. They all take it now (the same happened with Japanese, Korean and Chinese).

Game still in English: the port has two separate language settings:

• Settings > Menu > Language: this menu and the launcher (what your log shows you changed: it goes through every menu language up to Thai).
• Settings > Game > Language: the game's own texts and voices. With "Automatic" it follows Windows' regional format, so on an English Windows the game stays in English. It needs a restart of the game.

Your log has no change of the game language, so could you set Settings > Game > Language to Thai (ไทย), restart, and tell me if the game is still in English? If it is, please post that run's logs/mkw.log. From 0.1.11 on the log also has a line oe: game language ... saying which language the game was given and where it came from.

One more thing from your log: your romfs folder has 206 325 files, 123 more than 1.8.0, so it still has files from a 1.0.0 setup. 0.1.11 removes those when you run the setup again (#261); they should not change the language, but it is worth redoing the setup then.

[adriadam10]

Update: to save the second setting, from the next version (0.1.11) Settings > Game > Language on Automatic follows the language you pick in Settings > Menu > Language when the game has it. So choosing Thai in the menu and restarting gives the game in Thai too. It is in main now.

[RavenChz]

Thank you for the detailed clarification!

I followed your suggestion and went to Settings > Game > Language to explicitly set it to Thai (ไทย) using a 1.8.0 dump. However, I encountered a couple of issues:

1. Game Crashes: Shortly after launching the game with the language set to Thai, the game unexpectedly closes itself (crashes).
2. Game Remains in English (When it doesn't crash): If I revert the setting back to English or Automatic, the game runs fine, but the in-game text remains entirely in English.

I have attached the latest mkw.log file covering this crash and test run below. Please let me know if there's anything else I can test or provide to help fix this!

mkw.log