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<H3>Localisation</H3>
<H4>Introduction</H4>
<P>Blob and Conquer supports a fairly primitive localisation system. If you wish to translate B&C in to
another language then the information below will be useful to you. Blob and Conquer usually starts up using
the default system language and will fall back to English for this parts of the game which haven't been
translated.</P>
<H4>Files and Format</H4>
<P>Localisation files live in the data/locale directory of the source and then under a two letter
named directory that contains the locale data. For example,</P>
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data/locale/
en/
fr/
es/
it/
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<P>Blob And Conquer does not inspect the directories under the locale directory and instead relies on
a file called <SPAN STYLE="font-family:monospace">index</SPAN> which contains the supported language information.
It is a simple file that contains key-value pairs for the language and the symbol. Adding a new supported
language is simply a case of adding in the language key and the language name.</P>
<P>The formatting of the locale files is as below (taken from the <I>battle</I> file)</P>
<TABLE STYLE="font-family:monospace" CELLSPACING="1" CELLPADDING="5" WIDTH="100%">
<TR><TD WIDTH="20%">HINT_SAVE</TD><TD>Press ACTION to Save Game</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>HINT_INFO</TD><TD>Press ACTION to get Information</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>INFO_PICKED_UP</TD><TD>Picked up %s</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>ITEM_REQUIRED</TD><TD>%s required</TD></TR>
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<P>The first column represents the key for the localisation string. The second column represents the translated string.</P>
<P>Translating is simply a case of adding in the appropriate key-value pairs for the language you desire. So, for example,
if you wanted to add in some French values you would add in a line as such,</P>
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<TR><TD WIDTH="20%">HINT_SAVE</TD><TD><Translated French String></TD></TR>
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<P>When running the game in French the game will load up the string for HINT_SAVE and display this instead of the
English string.</P>
<P><B STYLE="color:#BBBBFF">NOTE: All lines must end with a semi colon! Also multi line strings are not supported (ie - all
your text for that key-value pair must be on the same line). The game will give you little warning of issues with this. Again,
(as it appears in the file)</B></P>
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HINT_USE_SWITCH Press ACTION to activate switch;
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