WIP: initial Chinese translation

[longlene]

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[longlene]

I tested in my local machine, looks like there are a lot of character render issue. The workaround could be shortening the sentence, otherwise, the Chinese words would be truncated.

[Shinmera]

Thanks a lot for your work so far! Can you elaborate on the rendering issue / post a screenshot?

[longlene]

Two photos: we can see there is only 1 character for some menu item and even empty for another one.

They are different from the content of lang/zho/ui.sexp

[Shinmera]

I see, that's probably due to a lack of a font with full chinese character set support. If you have suggestions for a free font to use that matches the aesthetics of the game I'd be all ears.

[Shinmera]

Hi, please extract these two files into the pool/font-cache/ directory of Kandria. It should fix the font rendering so you can proceed with your work.

notocjk.zip

[longlene]

@Shinmera I tried it, looks like it does not work: I tried to switch lang and switch font in configuration after put these 2 files in pool/font-cache(actually font-cache does not exist, I created it). Looks like nothing changes.

I think noto-cjk font should work.
BTW, the version 1.1.20, windows build.

[Shinmera]

Oh, sorry, my bad, it should be in pool/kandria/font-cache where the rest of the fonts are.

[longlene]

@Shinmera It works well now! Let me try more about it later. Thank you!

[Shinmera]

Great! :)

[Shinmera]

Heya, just wanted to give a heads-up that development for Kandria has moved to codeberg: https://codeberg.org/shirakumo/kandria

If you don't want to use Codeberg but would still like to submit the Chinese translation, you can also submit the patches via email to [email protected]

And if there's anything else I can help with to help get this completed, please let me know either via email to the above address, or a comment on the PR on Codeberg.