Unfinished translation and fallbacks

[werbfred]

What would you think of making it possible to choose a secondary language as fallback when no translation string is available?

Actually only english/american is fully available, and you get a lot of awfull STR_XXX_XXX strings, if the string does has not been translated. This is the case for most MODs. Choosing a fallback language could be optional for those that like the fancy STR_XXX_XXX strings  , or those who want to participate in translating the GUI. Myself started working on translating to french a few MODs and hope to be able to submit my participation to MODders.

Otherwise.... great job !

[Piotr Karol Żółtowski (Piter432)]

It will be nice, but I don't know it's possible to code it

[Yankes]

It's possible. And it will probably dont need lot of code to do it.

[moriarty]

I support the suggestion. Something like "if the string isn't defined for current active language, use the language I designate as "secondary", if that's not there either, use en-US string (as that is probably closest to a "default" language), if that doesn't exist either, use whatever is there"

[Solarius Scorch]

Falko's modtester tool has a feature that automatically copies strings from EN to US or vice versa if one of them is missing.