[freespace2] support for polish version of freespace 2

rraptorr rraptorr at nails.eu.org
Thu Mar 6 03:41:21 EST 2003


On 5 Mar 2003, Taylor Richards wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 17:22, Bradley Bell wrote:
> Here is kind of a proof-of-concept for a way it could be handled.  I did
> this pretty quickly so anything that may cause a problem I probably know
> about, but feel free to make sure that I know.  I forgot to put the
> Polish patch in before doing this so sorry about that.  This patch
> doesn't make Makefile changes but the GERMAN_BUILD option would be
> rendered obsolete and with a couple of additional lines for selection
> the Polish patch would work as is without ini or build changes.  This
> would also have the benefit of a single installer/binary with support
> for multiple (all we know about) languages.
>
> I didn't realize that the built-in cmdline processing actually worked so
> I just used that and put in the new options.  No auto-detection but you
> can select a language from the command line.  The default is still
> English and I think it's easier to keep it that way since the localize
> stuff seams to expect it.  Try out "./freespace2 -help".
>
> If we can decide on a relatively foolproof way of conjuring "automagic"
> I think it could added to this pretty easily.  Although I know that it
> runs and at least appears to switch languages I don't know if it works
> 100% as expected.  I think I can find a German tester or two who would
> agree to test but I want to get this largely finalized first.  Comments,
> suggestions, recipe for "automagic"?

I'll look through it during the weekend and try to merge polish version.
And I'll do some tests maybe.

Janusz Dziemidowicz
rraptorr at nails.eu.org




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