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SC4Evermore International => Translation Requests => Topic started by: stef_siv on April 21, 2009, 06:28:23 AM

Title: Change SimCity language!?!?!
Post by: stef_siv on April 21, 2009, 06:28:23 AM
Hi,I would like to change my SimCity language to Greek...Is that possible?I am offered even to do it by myself but i can't find any software to edit the .dat files which are in any language folder...Any help is acceptable.Thanks in advance!!


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Title: Re: Change SimCity language!?!?!
Post by: RippleJet on April 21, 2009, 06:40:51 AM
Quote from: stef_siv on April 21, 2009, 06:28:23 AM
Hi,I would like to change my SimCity language to Greek...Is that possible?I am offered even to do it by myself but i can't find any software to edit the .dat files which are in any language folder...Any help is acceptable.Thanks in advance!!

Maxis only provided translations of the game into 18 languages (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=3961.0), and unfortunately Greek is not among those.
If somebody would translate all LTEXT file within SimCityLocale.dat into Greek, it would be possible though.

However, that would probably be too big a task for one person, with 5,962 LTEXT files... $%Grinno$%
Title: Re: Change SimCity language!?!?!
Post by: GoaSkin on September 04, 2009, 09:32:12 AM
a greek translation may only be possible if Maxis included greek letters into their embedded fonts. Nobody ever tested this.

But there are some inofficial translations, including catalan and turkish, but no language with non-latin letters.
Title: Re: Change SimCity language!?!?!
Post by: RippleJet on September 04, 2009, 10:34:14 PM
Quote from: GoaSkin on September 04, 2009, 09:32:12 AM
a greek translation may only be possible if Maxis included greek letters into their embedded fonts. Nobody ever tested this.

You can edit the ingame fonts.ini (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=532.msg227282#msg227282) file and set the game to use any TTF font, e.g. one having the full Unicode setup.


Quote from: GoaSkin on September 04, 2009, 09:32:12 AM
But there are some inofficial translations, including catalan and turkish, but no language with non-latin letters.

This post indicates that the game has been translated to Russian at least:

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