please help

[despotgit]

I am using the commands for export and import of the text, but when I add the game in ScummVM, should I select a language? I am translating the english dialogues to serbian (regular latin, nothing fishy). My problem is that the text is no longer displayed when I load the game. CTRL+T doesn't give the option at all, no options actually! No voice, no text no voice+text options. This is the command that I use to import

../scummtr -g monkey2 -cwh -A aov -i

and it seems to be working fine (there is a little bit of time, and then the command prompt returns, as if it is finished). Should the scummtr.txt be in a specific encoding? I tried not changing it (which is by default UTF), but I also tried setting the encoding to lossless-ASCII, and the problem is still the same, the texts are not there any more.

[dwatteau]

Hello @despotgit!

Thank you for opening this first discussion in this space :)

I'll have a look at your problem when I can find a bit of free time for it, in the following days.

Meanwhile, can you tell me which text editor and system you are using?

Per our FAQ I'd suggest using something like Notepad++ if you're on Windows, for example. scummtr is currently very sensitive to the automatic changes made by some text editors (newlines, whitespace, encoding…) so it's recommended to use a text editor which is known to "respect" the original format.

As for the encoding, for West-European languages, scummtr outputs to Windows-1252/ISO-8859-1 (sometimes also known as "ANSI" in the Windows world). But if you run scummtr with the -c flag, you should have a header in the first lines of your translation file, helping your text editor recognize the encoding we want.

So, along with your text editor / OS, can you also show the first few lines of your translations files?

If you don't see any encoding header in your translation file, it may mean you're running the old 2003 release of scummtr. In this case, please update to the latest release, which has several improvements.

(EDIT : miss-click, didn't meant to close the discussion)

Also, which edition of Monkey Island 2 are you trying to translate? The original DOS release? The Talkie one? (a.k.a. Ultimate Talkie Edition?)

The more context you give, the easier it is to give you a quick reply helping you solve the issue. Thanks!

[dwatteau]

@despotgit I can help you with that, yes, but as asked earlier , please provide examples of:

• lines being too long (e.g. an extract of your .txt file)
• a screenshot showing your problem in-game

so that I can reproduce it locally and tell you how you can deal with this.

For the verbs in particular, yes, its script needs to be updated, I can help you with that if you give me the details above. (You could also reuse what the "SCUMMPL" fan-translation of Monkey Island 2 did for its verbs; they changed the font for the longer words of Polish.)

[despotgit]

This is my current scummtr.txt in attachment
scummtr.txt
And I attach the screenshot of shortened verb pallette. E.g. I need also to change the serbian word for "Close" to "Zatvo" instead of the correct "Zatvori".

[dwatteau]

This is my current scummtr.txt in attachment

scummtr.txt

And I attach the screenshot of shortened verb pallette. E.g. I need also to change the serbian word for "Close" to "Zatvo" instead of the correct "Zatvori".

Perfect! Thanks, this is exactly what I need to properly investigate your problem

I'm at a work seminar this week but I'll try having a look at this as soon as possible

Hold on ;)

[dwatteau]

@despotgit In the mean time, can you give me an example of a line (or place in the game) when having a long line makes Ctrl-T stop working for you?

Thanks!

[despotgit]

@dwatteau pretty much anywhere if I add an extra character, the ctrl-T doesn't work any more, and no text is displayed.
I add a letter, do my script:
scummtr -g monkey2 -i -f scummtr.txt
and ctrl-T stops working.
One example of a line:
\255\010\201\147\255\010\166\000\255\010\010\000\255\010\000\000A 'de si ti krenuo, Lepice-Pantalonice? m
(Here I added an "m" character)