Localisation

[genna87]

Do you plan to make a multilingual version?

[Jivings]

@genna87 only if someone wanted to contribute translations :)

[genna87]

How can I help?

[Jivings]

@genna87 If you take a look at master.json. This is the decoded file that comes from the Pokemon Go app.

In that file you'll see strings with underscores such as POKEMON_TYPE_GRASS or V0013_MOVE_WRAP for each item. Ideally these should be replaced at runtime with a proper localised form of the name. For this we need a lookup table so that we know what word to replace them with. For instance;

var lang = {
  types: {
    POKEMON_TYPE_GRASS: {
      en: "grass",
      fr: "plante",
      ...
    },
    ...
  },
  moves: {
    V0013_MOVE_WRAP: {
      en: "wrap",
      fr: "Ligotage"
    },
    ...
  }
}

Usefully, Bulbapedia has a list of moves and types in other languages, which would be a great reference.

I hope this makes sense! It would be a great step forward :)

[genna87]

I'll try creating the table starting from there

It would need some time, tho

[Jivings]

@genna87 I'm going to create the English version tonight, generated from the master.json, that can then be improved by others.

[genna87]

Great

[genna87]

Other improvement suggestions:

• Link to Pokémon card on images of evolutions
• Close card clicking outside
• Search bar
• Items

PS
Could you explain me the meaning of the green and blue bars of the attacks?

THANKS!

[Jivings]

Movedex is coming next :)

The green bars mean that the move replenishes stamina, the blue one uses it up.

See, when you're battling and you use the fast move it charges up the stamina bar, and when you use the special move it consumes it. I will document these things in the movedex!

[genna87]

I've isolated and grouped all the translatable strings in the master.json file:
pkmn-go-translations-id.txt

Let me know which groups you think should be translated

[Jivings]

That's awesome! Nice one.

I also made a file with mapping some of the values that I am using to English:
https://github.com/squarecat/pokemongo-data/blob/master/assets/lang.json

Lets build on this file with other languages :)

[genna87]

Here a first draft for English and Italian:
lang.json.txt

[genna87]

Where can I find the other strings to be translated?

EG:

• "Basic Attacks"
• "Basic attacks are fast and replenish energy."
• ...

[Jivings]

That file looks great! I'll make everything use it sometime this weekend hopefully.

The other strings do not have a file yet, but it will be in the same directory and will be a similar format. eg.

{
  "movedex": {
    "title": {
        "en": "basic attacks"
    },
    "description": {
      "en": "Basic attacks are fast and replenish energy."
    }
}

Thanks for your help!

[genna87]

Any news?

How can I help?