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[Tecknojock]

Dwarf Fortress Language Creation Script

This script simplifies the creation of new language files.

This script can:

• Generate a dictionary file from language_DWARF.txt which can then be uploaded to a service like Google Translation Tookit and converted into another language.
• This new dictionary can be fed back into the script to generate a new language file.

Important notes:

• The script uses AutoIt to run
• Only ANSI is supported languages like Chinese or Arabic will have to be latinized first.

To use you will have to edit a couple variables located within the file (notepad works):

Code: [Select]

;Point this entry to your raw/object folder.  language_DWARF.txt and your wordlist must be located here
$dir =  "H:\LazyNewbPack[0.31.25][V9.3]\Dwarf Fortress v0.31.25\raw\objects\"

;The name of your translated dictionary file.  NOTE: Make first word of this file is the sixth line
$dict = "language_WORDLIST.txt"

$newdict = false ; Set this to true if you want to generate a new untranslated dictionary file
$languageName = "Klingon" ; Must be a string, case insensitive.

$KeepUntranslated = true ; When true untranslated words will be kept.

$removeWS = 1 ; Flags:
; 0 : Disable whitespace removal
; Note: I HAVE NOT TESTED IF DF SUPPORTS WS IN LANGUAGE FILES
; 1 : Combine words to remove white space
; X where X is a NEGATIVE NUMBER: trim everything to the left of X whitespace counting from the right
;Eg input phrase is "I have a dog"
;0 returns "I have a dog"
;1 returns "Ihaveadog"
;-1 returns "dog"
;-2 returns "adog"
;ect...
Download Here

Feel Free to ask any questions.

[Dsarker]

Keeping track of this.

[thetyler101]

I think the download link is broken.   

[Tecknojock]

Yep, it was.  It's been fixed.  I really should of checked my links after posting it 
Thanks for notifying me.

[Trapezohedron]

Keeping track of this.

[Kaelem Gaen]

Looks interesting, does this mean (assuming Dwarven uses English grammar) we can start talking in Dwarven or other languages?

In case I'm being foolish, is this similar to DFlang instead?

[Tecknojock]

It might be, what's DFlang?  If it is, I feel kind of foolish not looking a little harder before spending time writing this for myself.

Seems that it is. That one is probably better in that it will generate similar words from a list.

This one just dumps the language file and expects you to run it through a translation service, so you will have real foreign words instead of foreign sounding words.

I wish I would have looked a little harder before writing this to deal with all the languages I was creating.

If you  really want it, I could write the former.

[Dsarker]

I prefer this one.