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hajo wrote:Also, I noticed that v0.4.14 doesn't have "en" as a language-choice.

Blank means system-default, and if that happens to be german,
the only way to get english seems to be to select something else,
and then delete the file for that language...

I've tried to add that in different way, but my PR was closed.

Also, you can still use: in your minetest.conf.

c++, never touched Lua

crazy_baboon wrote:c++, never touched Lua

No... We're talking about the language of the interface, not the language of coding, but Lua isn't bad.

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Back to topic: TLDR: I use English.
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Recently (not so recent), I've added Malay translation. I did see a few Malaysian players on a few servers and on forums so I think it's better to start translating it to Malay. In real life, I've seen many Malaysian especially Malays who actually use their OS and all programs in Malay, most notably in younger generations so I really feel I need to start translating it when I did not see existing translation of Malay.

As for myself, I'm using English interface until the Malay translation is finished (I'm the one who is translating them to Malay anyway -- at least that's the case now). Partly because I'm more familiar with English as I was schooled in the period when a programme called "Teaching and Learning Mathematics and Sciences in English" was implemented in all schools, thus I learnt those subjects in English even though I'm in Chinese primary school. The programme was cancelled afterwards and all students in Malaysia are now learning Math and Science in native languages dependent on the school. For example, my little brother who is also schooling in the same Chinese-stream school is learning all maths and science terms in Chinese. Whereas my cousin is schooling in normal Malay-stream school is learning all maths and science terms in Malay, no more English terms.

As I learnt science in English, I do find it interesting when I re-read them in Malay. Sometimes it's quite hilarious when I see in Malay science terms that some of the words from periodical table corresponds to the symbol while the English counterparts are not, and sometimes the reverse is true. For example, Potassium (K) in Malay is Kalium and Sodium (Na) in Malay is Natrium. But, Carbon (C) in Malay is Karbon.

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Malay is the official language of Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore, mother language of Territory of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, and minority language in southern Thailand and southern Philippines. The official language of Indonesia, Indonesian is also a variation of Malay. There are three standards of Malay, Malaysia-Singapore, Brunei and Indonesia. Malay used on Malaysia-Singapore standard is similar to Brunei standard and could be understood by most of the other countries that uses Malay, but Indonesia standard which called as Indonesian contains many words that is mostly not understandable by the other countries.

In Indonesia, there are actually separate language "Indonesian" and "Malay" where Indonesian, the standardized form of Malay used as national language has some of the vocabs and grammars slighly changed as it's being used as lingua franca of Indonesia where many people have different native languages. On the other hand, unstandardized form of Malay is still called as Malay and it is a regional language in Indonesia itself. This unstandardized Indonesia's Malay form is similar to the standardized Malaysia-Singapore's and Brunei's Malay while the standardized Indonesian is not really similar to them.

As Indonesian (ID) is considered a variation of Malay (MS), they will also be counted as or included alongside Malay as same language from linguistic view even though it has some different vocabs and uses different ISO codes (ID vs MS). It appeared on the video by LangFocus on YouTube as the eight most spoken language in the world with 250 million speakers (the second list in video, not the first list). The top 10 list ranges from English at first and French at tenth https://youtu.be/NG3r5N6ES3M

Please add Dhivehi (dv)

srifqi wrote:

hajo wrote:Also, I noticed that v0.4.14 doesn't have "en" as a language-choice.

Blank means system-default, and if that happens to be german,
the only way to get english seems to be to select something else,
and then delete the file for that language...

I've tried to add that in different way, but my PR was closed.

Also, you can still use:

Code: Select all

language = en

in your minetest.conf.

I guess I can shorten that if you use Linux.

The translations do not work if you do not compile it with a special parameter set to a special value or symlink the wrongly placed translation files directory to the location where translations should be located nowadays.

Either do ln -s /usr/share/locale /usr/share/minetest or compile with CUSTOM_LOCALEDIR set to the correct value.

https://github.com/minetest/minetest/issues/1582
https://github.com/minetest/minetest/pull/3108
viewtopic.php?p=189914#p189914

Lua! ;)

The good ole 'American

Recently i did translate the Minetest intlib to the Spanish language, i translated the Storage Drawers and Lapis Lazuli mods too.
I hope somebody finds that useful.

latsurfe wrote:The good ole 'American

Seriously, this should be considered it's own language. We have murdered English so much that 'American' is pretty much a language now.

Which language do you use in Minetest?

Today???
Bad language.... Very, very, very bad language.
Language no one should ever have to be subjected to.

:D (modding problems) :P

Kids of my neighbourhood play on my server and they almots all want german interface.
I prefer english. :-D

I prefer english, because it's annoying to play a half translated game.

I prefer to use English and Russian languages.

English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian and little Russian.

I use dutch(And the parts that aren't translated yet in english :P ).

Usually I do use just an English translation, but sometimes I switch to MadCatz translation cause it's fun :D
Also I wonder why cyrillic translations use much different fonts? They are quite meager.

LuKurtz wrote:Also I wonder why cyrillic translations use much different fonts? They are quite meager.

I believe that the appearance of non-ASCII characters (eg. cyrillic, arabic, chinese, etc.) in the font depends on your operating system (OS)'s font substitution method whenever the said character doesn't exist in the font itself, so it looked different in different device running different OS.

The original font only supports ASCII and a few non-ASCII characters (latin expansion pack, I think?), and the fallback font doesn't even load on certain device or OS (for unknown reason) making it fallback to system's substitution font instead. However, there's certain OS that's not that clever or has had substitution process goes wrong, and substitutes those non-ASCII characters to blank spaces.

That's why you heard complaint on "Certain words not appear" and "Asian chats not supported" despite I chat in Japanese and Chinese just fine (last chat is yesterday as I help a Japanese newbie who don't even know how to write english words and don't know how to read certain kanji that I write... I suspect that she's very young since Japanese mostly learn English from 5th grade)... those who are complaining words not appearing are the ones having device running OS that has had the font substituted the characters not-supported with a blank space...

I can help translate minetest from english to thai.

@Kevin Tee: You should go to IRC on irc.freenode.net, channel #minetest-dev and talk to the developers there. They will tell you the rest.

IRC infos: https://wiki.minetest.net/IRC

Lazy link, goes directly to chat in your browser: https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#minetest-dev

English for me

In the chat i use dutch/spanish/english

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Polish.
Why polish characters: ą, ć, ę, ń, ś, ź, ż not works in the game and on chat?
Works only ł and ó.

I don't know, my menu is in Spanish but the game itself is in English, but I would like to play in Esperanto, though.