williewillus
Generally speaking, comments in configuration files are written only in English and do not change based on user settings.
This is essentially an assumption: if comments in configuration files supported translation, the configuration file would need to be refreshed every time the game starts or the language is changed. If switching from English to Chinese—and if the Chinese text isn’t encoded in UTF-8—writing it to the file would result in garbled characters (such as 锟斤拷).👇👇👇
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If I were to translate the comments, it would cause issues for users who use GBK encoding versus those who use UTF-8. Unfortunately, Windows doesn’t handle this; by default, it uses the encoding based on the user’s location. the configuration file is loaded before the user settings, and there’s no way around that. Including Chinese text in configuration files can easily lead to garbled characters. Furthermore, at the time the configuration file is generated, the program does not know—and should not know—the user’s language settings, so comments within the configuration file must be hardcoded. the configuration file is loaded before the user settings, and there’s no way around that.
I have just two suggestions:
- I hope Botania will allow configuration files to be opened within the game, just like Quark.
- Please provide the key-value pairs in the configuration files for use in localization translation files.