How to create new translations of the SVN edition?

[dehavilland]

Hi
The translation is not adequate in SVN 11329 and the translation status on Launchpad remains full. So I modified the data/supertuxkart.pot file by myself (adding new lines as "%1 flattens %0" and "Story Mode", etc) using VIM and added some Chinese translations in zh_CN.po using poedit . However, it does not work properly. Some Chinese characters does not show.

Regards

Winston Wu

[KroArtem]

you should just ask devs to update pot file on launchpad and new strings will be available for translation.

[Auria]

Hi,

there are a few things to know here. First, I did not update the pot officially yet on Launchpad (or SVN) because out strings are not frozen and may still change. So it would be frustrating if I published the new strings now, and later some get removed. Shortly before release we will announce a string freeze so that translators can do their work without fearing that things keep on changing

A second problem is that Chinese is special : since there are a LOT of letters in Chinese languages, we include a special font that contains only those characters that are actually used, to save space and make STK load faster. So after the Chinese translation is updated, we will need to re-generate the font files before you can see it all in-game. Again, this is something we will do before a release