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Allogonist  [developer] 2 Jan, 2017 @ 1:28pm
Monogame can't render chinese characters
I am pinning this discussion so that people see what is going on here.

I don't have access to a Chinese install of windows, however I am almost certain the issues of the game crashing in China relates to the rendering of dates and times. It is hard for me to test.

0.5.1.03 tries to fix this.

I have forced all rendering of debugging text to fail in a safe way. Hopefully if your game attempts to draw something that it doesn't know how to draw it will now keep running instead of crashing.

In order to render chinese text we would need to extend monogame or use a new framework for rendering text. We may do this in the far future but that is a big project to undertake.

I could use some help communicating these issues to the Chinese customers.
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Blood_Red_Hunter 3 Jan, 2017 @ 5:22am 
Originally posted by Allogonist:
"Monogame" 不能渲染中文字

我把这论坛贴上来让人看。

我没有个有中文的微软Windows，但是我几乎确定游戏崩溃的原因是关于渲染时间和日期。
这让我很难试验。

0.5.1.03 谋求解决这个问题。

我强行把调试的文本安全地分解。希望游戏试图渲染它不懂这么渲染的文本时，它不会崩溃。

如果我们要让我们的游戏渲染中文字，我们需要扩大”Monogame“或用个新的框架渲染字。我们以后可能这样做，但是它是个大型项目。

我需要人帮忙把这些议题相通给中国客户。
Last edited by Blood_Red_Hunter; 3 Jan, 2017 @ 5:22am
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HALO 3 Jan, 2017 @ 9:47am 
收到，需要什么帮助就和我们说
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Allogonist  [developer] 3 Jan, 2017 @ 9:02pm 
Thanks again Red.
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BBGun 22 Feb, 2017 @ 5:11am 
wooo!chinese localization!THX Allogonist!
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Gavin McStine 4 Sep, 2017 @ 9:16am 
In the new update there is some work done on the font of the chat boxes, will this allow for non-roman alphabet? Or is it only a font change and/or size change?
Last edited by Gavin McStine; 4 Sep, 2017 @ 9:17am
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Blood_Red_Hunter 4 Sep, 2017 @ 9:53am 
Mainly a font and/or size change along with the new graphics, so they dont look so bad on a high res screen.
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一般路过合成人 23 Dec, 2017 @ 12:15pm 
looking forward it, this game is great:steamhappy:
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Lone Siberian 28 Jan, 2018 @ 9:07am 
Actually the same happens with cyrillic characters. I.e. any non-latin.
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Blood_Red_Hunter 28 Jan, 2018 @ 5:03pm 
Originally posted by zakotyansky:
Actually the same happens with cyrillic characters. I.e. any non-latin.
Essentially, Yes
Last edited by Blood_Red_Hunter; 28 Jan, 2018 @ 5:04pm
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Allogonist  [developer] 29 Jan, 2018 @ 12:49pm 
I've done some design work on localization just to take inventory of what the project would even require for me to get it started. I'm posting this for the sake of transparency.

Monogame doesn't render unicode, it renders fonts and it renders them as sprites, which means to support anything other than the base english-latin alpha-numeric characters we need to:

  • Provide unicode translations for every string used
  • Design a binary format that allows localization data be loaded from outside of the core game code
  • Integrat the above with the steam workshop
  • Provide fonts for every language in every size and style currently used. If we currently use 5 different fonts, that means adding chinese would take us to 10 fonts and russian to 15 fonts
  • Conditional loading of font content files for different languages
  • Conditinal rendering of fonts for different languages (think every draw call of text)
  • string reference based text use where we reference a variable instead of having inline text. yeah that probably means rewriting every line of dialogue code and every line of UI code even for english text rendering to work under a localization system
  • upgrades to dynamic formatting for things like word-wrap in tooltips and dialogue
  • don't get me started on how numbers are formatted in different languages. If we ever do localization I am tempted to skip this step entirely and force US english numbers in all cases.

Many multi-lingual people have generously offered to help with translation which we do appreciate, however that's just the first bullet point above.
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星耀羽翼 23 Oct, 2019 @ 7:37am 
Originally posted by Allogonist:
I've done some design work on localization just to take inventory of what the project would even require for me to get it started. I'm posting this for the sake of transparency.

Monogame doesn't render unicode, it renders fonts and it renders them as sprites, which means to support anything other than the base english-latin alpha-numeric characters we need to:

  • Provide unicode translations for every string used
  • Design a binary format that allows localization data be loaded from outside of the core game code
  • Integrat the above with the steam workshop
  • Provide fonts for every language in every size and style currently used. If we currently use 5 different fonts, that means adding chinese would take us to 10 fonts and russian to 15 fonts
  • Conditional loading of font content files for different languages
  • Conditinal rendering of fonts for different languages (think every draw call of text)
  • string reference based text use where we reference a variable instead of having inline text. yeah that probably means rewriting every line of dialogue code and every line of UI code even for english text rendering to work under a localization system
  • upgrades to dynamic formatting for things like word-wrap in tooltips and dialogue
  • don't get me started on how numbers are formatted in different languages. If we ever do localization I am tempted to skip this step entirely and force US english numbers in all cases.

Many multi-lingual people have generously offered to help with translation which we do appreciate, however that's just the first bullet point above.


Developer friend!
I want to ask!Does the game support Chinese localization now?If we want to make our own culture in the game, what do we need to do now!How to propose the text you want to translate!Thank you very much!Every time I ask the game, I take photos of the game with my mobile phone, and then I translate the photos into ai and experience the game. This kind of experience is very bad!The game is very good!But without Chinese, it's hard to get attention in China.I like the game very much and don't want it to be so dull.
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Linglightning 26 Sep, 2023 @ 9:55pm 
@Allogonist .Dear devs. is the mono frame still impossible to render Chinese ？Really hope could play this game in Chinese. Play a si-fi gme in English is too hard to us.
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