I want to translate ZSNES to Chinese, Can anyone teach me ?

Greatwriter · Post by **Greatwriter** » Thu May 18, 2006 2:22 pm

Because the Chinese characters at least need 10x10 fonts.
And I need to add thousands of Chinese characters.

But I don't konw how to handle. Can anyone teach me ?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu May 18, 2006 5:14 pm

The font is currently fixed at 5x5 pixels per character. You'll have to wait until ZSNES has a new GUI.

Greatwriter · Post by **Greatwriter** » Thu May 18, 2006 5:20 pm

Can I modify the display system to support bigger font?

Is it very difficult to modify ?

creaothceann · Post by **creaothceann** » Thu May 18, 2006 5:30 pm

Greatwriter wrote:Can I modify the display system to support bigger font?

yes

Greatwriter wrote:Is it very difficult to modify ?

yes

Well, the ZSNES team can always use new members...

Post by **grinvader** » Fri May 19, 2006 12:58 am

Explaining how to do it would be much slower than actually doing it. Wait patiently and it will be done eventually.

Patiently == don't ask when.

paulguy · Post by **paulguy** » Fri May 19, 2006 2:34 am

you could translate the command line help and config files to make it somewhat usable to chinese users, though.

Post by **Nach** » Fri May 19, 2006 2:36 am

paulguy wrote:you could translate the command line help and config files to make it somewhat usable to chinese users, though.

I don't think he's going to be targetting his translation for users with a command line, and I don't see how he's going to get chinese into the config files.

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Fri May 19, 2006 3:32 am

He could if he used UTF-8 or smth.

Post by **Nach** » Fri May 19, 2006 3:33 am

Aerdan wrote:He could if he used UTF-8 or smth.

Yes, however from his other posts I gathered this is for Windows, which is very pro UTF-16.

Greatwriter · Post by **Greatwriter** » Fri May 19, 2006 11:28 am

Nach wrote:
Aerdan wrote:He could if he used UTF-8 or smth.
Yes, however from his other posts I gathered this is for Windows, which is very pro UTF-16.

I just want to use GB2312

And I really just compile the windows Version.

Nach wrote:
paulguy wrote:you could translate the command line help and config files to make it somewhat usable to chinese users, though.
I don't think he's going to be targetting his translation for users with a command line, and I don't see how he's going to get chinese into the config files.

Because I think ZSNES is the best emulator , and I hope more chinese can understand this software . So I hope to try my best to translate it.

Of course, my knowledge is so poor. I can't easy to do that.
This is why I need help in here.

MOD EDIT: Please don't double-post, there is an

button for a reason.. Carry on.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Fri May 19, 2006 5:40 pm

Nach wrote:
Aerdan wrote:He could if he used UTF-8 or smth.
Yes, however from his other posts I gathered this is for Windows, which is very pro UTF-16.

No one from other countries use UTF-anything. Japan uses SJIS, Mandarin-speaking Chinese use GB2312, Cantonese-speaking Chinese use Big5, etc.

Anyway, I doubt many of these encodings have dual-byte characters that contain a 0x00 in them, so an 8-bit string should theoretically be read in correctly... am I missing something? Can't say I've done much non-English programming work in the past, but I've never had problems parsing SJIS strings using 8-bit char arrays in c++ for the script translations I've worked on. At least for SJIS and GB2312, you can avoid all special cases like reading the second-byte as 0x00, 0x0a, end-quote, etc by just checking the first byte to see if bit 7 (0x80) is set. If it is, read two characters. Else, one.

The only real problem will be increasing the height of the font. You'd never be able to fit everything on the screen that way, whereas increasing the width should be fine (and easy) since you need far less Hanzi than letters to form sentences.

Greatwriter · Post by **Greatwriter** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:14 am

No one from other countries use UTF-anything. Japan uses SJIS, Mandarin-speaking Chinese use GB2312, Cantonese-speaking Chinese use Big5, etc.

I think simplified Chinese use GB2312, traditional Chinese use BIG5.
Because I am also a Cantonese-speaking Chinese in GuangDong province.

Anyway, I doubt many of these encodings have dual-byte characters that contain a 0x00 in them, so an 8-bit string should theoretically be read in correctly... am I missing something? Can't say I've done much non-English programming work in the past, but I've never had problems parsing SJIS strings using 8-bit char arrays in c++ for the script translations I've worked on. At least for SJIS and GB2312, you can avoid all special cases like reading the second-byte as 0x00, 0x0a, end-quote, etc by just checking the first byte to see if bit 7 (0x80) is set. If it is, read two characters. Else, one.

The only real problem will be increasing the height of the font. You'd never be able to fit everything on the screen that way, whereas increasing the width should be fine (and easy) since you need far less Hanzi than letters to form sentences.

Thanks your help. So I want to use as small as the fonts in Chinese.
Maybe it looks not good, At least I begin to understand how to do this job. I will try your method . Thank you once more.

MOD EDIT: Please don't double-post, there is an button for a reason.. Carry on.

I am sorry~. I will pay attention to it.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Sat May 20, 2006 5:18 am

I think simplified Chinese use GB2312, traditional Chinese use BIG5.

Ugh, I'm sorry for being disrespectful. I always mix up dialect and written language, even though the two are not mutually inclusive -- eg, Taiwanese speak Mandarin and use traditional characters.

Player1 · Post by **Player1** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:44 pm

The only solution that would be easy would be to write or modify one of the many frontends for Zsnes. Hope that is helpfull

Post by **Nach** » Sun May 21, 2006 1:54 pm

byuu wrote:
Nach wrote:
Aerdan wrote:He could if he used UTF-8 or smth.
Yes, however from his other posts I gathered this is for Windows, which is very pro UTF-16.
No one from other countries use UTF-anything.

On Windows that may usually be the case, but for other OSs, it's not that way.
zones informs me Mac OS X for example only uses UTF-8.

byuu · Post by **byuu** » Sun May 21, 2006 10:58 pm

On Windows that may usually be the case, but for other OSs, it's not that way.
zones informs me Mac OS X for example only uses UTF-8.

True, now as soon as Mac OS X gets a userbase >5% of the market, perhaps we can concern ourselves with this fact :/

In the mean time, nearly all websites and documents in these languages posted online will not be in UTF-anything. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have one standard encoding, then I wouldn't have to reboot Windows or use some hackish program to run two different apps from two different locales. And it would be possible to see the filenames of all of my MP3s at once (some are simplified chinese, some are japanese).