[HN Gopher] Localizing Unity games as an indie dev
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Localizing Unity games as an indie dev
Author : bmalicoat
Score : 31 points
Date : 2023-02-09 19:27 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| Raymonf wrote:
| > One for Japanese and Chinese
|
| Please don't do this! Han Unification causes your Japanese text
| look weird when displayed with a Simplified Chinese font,
| likewise with a Traditional Chinese or Korean font.
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| https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/
| bcrosby95 wrote:
| Interesting! I never ran across this problem before despite
| doing a lot of i18n, but it seems like its because we're
| properly setting everything up with http headers.
|
| Definitely useful knowledge for the game we're working on
| though.
| bmalicoat wrote:
| Thanks for the tip! I've updated the article (and I'll soon
| update my game!).
| candiddevmike wrote:
| Related, I made a tool to convert a YAML file with localizations
| into type safe go/typescript code. Anyone interested in it?
| matthew-wegner wrote:
| Unity's own localization package is actually pretty good, and one
| of the few Unity packages that actually seems to solve more
| problems than it creates:
| https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.4...
| DizzyDoo wrote:
| Yes, in the past I've both rolled my own localisation system
| and used Unity's localization package, and the official package
| is really excellent. There's Google Sheets integration[0],
| Pseudo language generation for testing[1], and the system for
| templated strings/nested strings/strings that only slightly
| differ based on gendered words, is really deep.
|
| [0] -
| https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.0...
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| [1] -
| https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.0...
| codetrotter wrote:
| > Pseudo language generation for testing
|
| Would be fun to have it translate to gibberish elvish using
| ChatGPT.
|
| I say gibberish elvish because apparently from a recent
| thread on Reddit, ChatGPT does not do a very good job at
| translating into elvish.
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/sindarin/comments/10gbq8z/i_asked_c.
| ..
| drewcoo wrote:
| Double extra yes to pseudo-localized builds in front of
| humans to catch unloc'd strings.
|
| It's not a perfect solution, but it's an odd kind of elegant.
| Elegant to code up and reliant on innate human pattern-
| matching to find bugs! Sorta like altering CSS for testing's
| sake on web pages so that some things just "pop."
|
| I wish more people used those simple tricks. We waste an
| amazing amount of time on "perfect" solutions when we code
| automation and on manual testers walking the same paths, the
| same ways, over and over in their scripted test cases.
| bmalicoat wrote:
| Love that they handle images too! Something I haven't needed
| yet, but can see the need for. Your point about causing more
| problems than it solves is why I had a knee-jerk avoidance to
| the official loc package. Seems like I was wrong about that.
|
| BTW Love the style of Aztez.
| aschearer wrote:
| Neat, thanks for releasing this tool! I've had luck with i2 loc
| in other projects, but will take a look at this next time. Also,
| to shamlessly co-opt this thread, you might be interested in a
| tool I wrote a while back: https://github.com/aschearer/LocWarden
|
| It's sort of like lint for loc files, catching common translation
| errors I've come across as well as helping generate common loc
| assets e.g. Steam store markup.
| bmalicoat wrote:
| Nice! I'll take a look at that. Loc is funny because there are
| clearly tons of tools (both paid and free), but it's not that
| hard of a problem so it's easy to have the "not invented here"
| mentality and just do it yourself! I hoped by writing it up in
| a very Unity-specific way, I'd save some people some time even
| if they use another tool or write it themselves.
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