Converting FC from Russian into English

[Renato71]

Hi,

 

Friend of mine just got back from Moscow and brought me a Russian version of FC. Now, I am older dude from Croatia, and I understand Cyrillic, and being a CCCP fan for a long time, I can find my way around. Bur still I do not fully understand Russian, and can't yank my friend for each unknown line.

 

And, he brought another FC for another friend of ours, and he speaks no Russian at all (Cyrillic knowledge questionable).

 

So, I've been wandering if anybody ever "converted" Russian into English? I have been fooling around to localize GUI into Croatian (but had some codepage issues that could not resolve), so I guess this would not be a problem. I've checked up several files that contain GUI messages and they look (in form) same as in Lomac 1.02.

 

Could someone please send me (or post here) following files:

 

FUI -> EnglishVersion -> (all files in folder)

Input -> EnglishVersion -> (all files in folder)

Network -> EnglishVersion -> (all files in folder)

Config -> Localizer.cfg

Sound -> EnglishVersion -> RadioSpeech.cfg (this one could be in further subfolder RF and USA - please, USA only)

 

Above files are about 62kb unzipped (in 1.02), so no fear that I am asking too much. I don't think I will need anything more for now.

 

Also, if anybody has a clue regarding fonts used in GUI? Just for menus, not needed for cockpit.

 

Thanks!

[Renato71]

What, like there is nobody with english version?

 

Erm, look like the title of my post was quite unattractive....

 

Is there anybody who has english version of FC?

 

C'mon guys, I just new few little files! Is this so hard to do?

[MaxRiga]

i have russian version of the game. i moved to canada and i have english XP. when i've instaled my FC i found lot of wierd stuff and it's impossible to play at all. converting into the english of all russian(cyrillic) stuff whould help me too, i guess.

[Renato71]

Thanks for reply! Wow, I'm not alone!

 

Well, I wasn't sitting on my hands. I managed to "create" English GUI for FC !!! I just manage to do it (few minute ago) and tested it - It works! Here is the file (I hope, I've never sent a file on this forum). Just unzipp it into you LockOn 1.1 folder. Nothing to back-up except maybe Localizer.cfg. Lets call this a pre-release, ha? Still experimenting, heh, will write better instructions next time.

 

Here are some notes that I think are important:

 

1. I had initial trouble starting Russian FC until I changed (on win2003):

 

Regional and language options -> Advanced -> Language for non-unicode programs -> Russian

 

Windows need to be restarted. Also, Win could ask for installation CD.

 

2. I re-used locale files from LO1.02, filled-in all the new lines and placed them in the same manner they were placed in 1.02 (mentioned above, in first post). Furthermore I've edited few lines in Localizer.cfg (new lines at the bottom of this post)

 

3. I still have to keep regional setting as described above. Otherwise the game wont start (at least on my PC). I wandered way, but then I noticed that some item remained in Russian. I guess until I switch all lines, I will have to keep Russian. There is also possibility that some part of the game engine checks regional setting. I dunno, me not a proggie.

 

Items still in Russian:

- Few buttons: Start and Exit on main screen

- Briefing text

- All items on drop-down lists: names of the countries, pilots, skills, weapons, weapon types…

 

4. All other menus are in English. The game does not crash on any menu nor in flight. For the moment. I will work further on detecting where missing lines are hidden, but some help from an owner of English FC would be most then welcomed.

 

I've also contacted dev team on a request if I could translate LO/FC into Croatian. I was able to introduce third language in 1.02, but Croatian specific characters were not shown properly no matter what code page or regional setting I choose.

 

I've tried to contact French teams (looks like they have translated FC), but all French forum are... in French. No blame, just were do I click to send a mail? :cry:

 

Anybody here speaks French? Little favor, ha?

 

Frankly, I don't mind Cyrillic (I can read it), but I don't know Russian that much. Also, what is more important to me, I work a lot in text editors, and now all of Croatian specific characters are replaced by Cyrillic ones. (not in Word, just in Notepad). And to change non-unicode setting I gotta restart PC. It's not very practical.

 

New Localizer.cfg:

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Simbols = "FUI/Simbols.cfg";

UserInterface = "FUI/EnglishVersion/UserInterface.cfg";

Common = "FUI/EnglishVersion/Common.cfg";

Action = "Input/EnglishVersion/Action.cfg";

Impact = "Input/EnglishVersion/Impact.cfg";

JoystickConfig = "Input/EnglishVersion/Joystick.cfg";

KeyboardConfig = "Input/EnglishVersion/Keyboard.cfg";

MouseConfig = "Input/EnglishVersion/Mouse.cfg";

Layer = "Input/EnglishVersion/Layer.cfg";

Switch = "Input/EnglishVersion/Switch.cfg";

NetworkTexts = "Network/EnglishVersion/NetText.cfg";

RadioUSAPath = "Sounds/RussianVersion/USA/";

RadioUSAConfig = "Sounds/RussianVersion/USA/RadioSpeech.cfg";

RadioRFPath = "Sounds/RussianVersion/RF/";

RadioRFConfig = "Sounds/RussianVersion/RF/RadioSpeech.cfg";

RadioGERPath = "Sounds/RussianVersion/USA/";

RadioGERConfig = "Sounds/RussianVersion/USA/RadioSpeech.cfg";

Lock On 1.1.zip

[Renato71]

And one more addition before I go to bed: Fast Battle Planner and User Interface (some messages only):

 

FBP.ini

ui.xml

 

Make backup!

 

Goes to:

(path)\Lock On 1.1\ME\

 

Just noted - I cannot open missions that have titles in Russian. Guess windows issue.

FBP-UI.zip

[Stealth_HR]

Wow. I didn't think that was possible at all. Great work, Renato! Glad to see another croatian member on board, as well. :)

 

I'm aware of the croatian codepage problems in LockOn - doesn't even allow me to spell my name in the Mission Editor, so I'm glad you contacted them as well. Maybe us croatians should group together and badger ED about it as a whole. ;)

 

Edit: Okay, I misread the post, time to reformulate this paragraph.

Since you've been going from russian to english, I was wondering if you could give me a hint on going the other way around - to be precise, I have been planning to "translate" the MEinit.xml file to russian so the airplane designations and names would be in cyrillic (i.e. Су-27 Журавлик). What format are the files you edited in? Unicode, UTF-8? If you could tell me that, and post a copy of your original MEinit, I could compare it with my english version of it and see just what you'd need changed in order to get planes and weapons in latinic.

[Dutch]

I have russian version, and UK XP. Never expereinced any problem. Perhaps, you just need to install Russian as default encoding for non-unicode programms. That's in case if you want it in Russian. If not, then I don't see any reason to translate it because the games are identical.

[Renato71]

Perhaps, you just need to install Russian as default encoding for non-unicode programms.

 

Yes, just as I said it above.

 

No, the game is not identical. It is in Russian. I am not that proficient in Russian. My friend is. He has some dunnowhat degree in Russian. I understand some aeronautical terms, but that's all.

 

Still, I would like to translate FC into Croatian, and for me this "translating from Russian into English" is kinda like excercise.

[Renato71]

Translating

 

Hi Stealth_HR!

 

Well, in all the excitment with my first progress in switching from Russian into English, I didn't "prepared" my post as a serious statement, heh.

 

Let's call this thread as a probe for the subject od translating!

 

Yes, I am very interested into translating LO/FC into Croatian, and I hope there are other people who would like to have this marvelous simulation in their own language. I saw that Frenchmen did some work on that, and looks like they solved the character/font issue.

 

Files that I have put here should serve just as a itermediate help for people like me. When I learn a bit more about the text files used in LO/FC, I will start new thread with more "attractive" title.

 

I am glad to see positive response on the poll as well, thou I should name it "Are you interested to see LO/FC in your own language"? Well, it was 3AM....

[pappavis]

All you need to do to get the language of your choice is to copy a few files into the FUI directory. I tried a translation once to Afrikaans (Republic of South Africa) which worked fine on the russian version of FC which i got from the wife of my brother.

[Renato71]

thnx

 

Thanks for reply,

 

Yes, I know about the files that are involved (containing text), but I have codepage problems. I guess Afrikaans uses same characters as in english, wright? So you should not have the problems I am experiencing....