Alternate language support

[no-lex]

One of the ways that Imprimis can reach a broader audience is by having support for multiple languages in its UIs and interfaces.

There are two main distinct parts of the game that need to be handled separately, and they are as follows:

• The CubeScript based UIs, which needs:

  • A list of aliases with values for each language, in individual files
  • All inline strings to be replaced with aliases
  • A UI menu for changing locale
  • Saving of locale options to config

• The C++ based console interfaces, which needs:

  • A list of CubeScript string var builtins corresponding to messages sent to players via the console
  • A list of alias redefinitions for each language, in individual files

In the long term, revisions to tessfont may be needed to expand language support beyond the Latin-based alphabets currently supported. However, without this, it is still possible to add support for most Romance and Germanic languages.

[b-sharman]

As of 6c04712, the following cfg files remain:

• class.cfg (good for first-time contributors, except the slight complexity of adding concatwords)
• fkey.cfg (I am currently working on it)
• scoreboard.cfg (might involve removing English abbreviations such as PJ)

I do not know which C++ files need changing.