BeBot - An Anarchy Online and Age Of Conan chat automaton
Development => Coding and development discussion => Topic started by: Blueeagle on April 11, 2007, 12:48:49 am
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Have anyone given thought to implementing internationalization and localization?
I'm reading a bit on the GNU gettext libraries and was wondering if anyone else had thoughts on this. I know many guilds have nationality as a requirement and offering them a bot that speaks their own touge wouldn't be a bad idea
Still not sure how much work it would take to implement i18n and l10n support. Does anyone else have experience in such? Or other thoughts?
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Been reading up on it and it seems that it would greatly encourage a move to using printf() and sprintf() in all modules. Although echo will work using (s)printf would make translations easier. That's atleast what I make of it...
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My main concern would be, how much will it cost us in times of slowing the bot down and CPU usage.
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AO is english (except rk3, let them do whatever they want) so there's no real need to add a bunch of localization and other useless crap. Yes it is useless because anyone that has a need for a bot has to know more than enough english to play the game.
It's a lot better to spend time and effort into something that'll benefit the entire community instead of a limited playerbase. I know of at least one "country" org that doesn't only have people from that country in it. They wouldn't understand a thing if the bot suddenly started using native language.