How to help with translations?

[Cigarrette_Man]

Willing to help with translation

[Other]

From the FAQ: (currently the top news post; if someone looks at this later, the FAQ is in the Oct 4th 2023 post)

Q: Will the game be localized/translated to my language?

It is difficult due to the procedural sentence constructions used throughout the game. Our best suggestion at this time is to use auto-translation tools for text on screen, which has been helping some users. We are investigating translation options behind the scenes but it’s very early stages.

[Cigarrette_Man]

Originally posted by Other:

From the FAQ: (currently the top news post; if someone looks at this later, the FAQ is in the Oct 4th 2023 post)

Q: Will the game be localized/translated to my language?

It is difficult due to the procedural sentence constructions used throughout the game. Our best suggestion at this time is to use auto-translation tools for text on screen, which has been helping some users. We are investigating translation options behind the scenes but it’s very early stages.

Thank you for posting nothing. I want to help with the translations myself

[AlP]

There are no translations.

[Cigarrette_Man]

Originally posted by AlP:

There are no translations.

Yes, so I wanna make some

[AlP]

Originally posted by Cigarrette_Man:

Originally posted by AlP:

There are no translations.

Yes, so I wanna make some

You can't.

[Drude Fiegler]

To quote another user on the issue of translation

Originally posted by LaChouette:

There's been several discussions about that already. The gist of it is:
- there are community projects in progress
- interface and tutorials are easy to translate
- everything else cannot be translated into anything but broken German because the text is procedurally generated and therefore would require a rewrite of a lot of code to work well (naming your dwarven group "The Cats" or "The Dogs", for example, would either give you "Der Kätze" or "Die Hunde" because there is only one "the" in English and the procedural generation doesn't have to check what goes after in this language, so you can't have different articles)

Same problem applies to language other than German because basically, DF is not giving modders enough tool to create a decent translation. But if you want to know more, I know of one project to translate DF at https://explore.transifex.com/dwarf-fortress-translation/dwarf-fortress-steam/

[rome of oxtrot]

There is a project[github.com] that is attempt to translate Dwarf Fortress. They may be related to the transifex project mentioned above. The DFHack team has had some interaction with them.

I wish them the best of luck; they will need it.

[林一二]

Rimworld is also PCG, its translation is vivid.