Daniel Caetano wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Jul 2002 18:16:03 +0200, Ivan Latorre wrote:
>
> >The hardest work has been the translation of the messages.
>
> I know. I'm translating them from english to portuguese and
> sometimes I have to ask some friend to verify the translation.
> Since I'm translating and adding the texts to the game, I can also
> verify if the translations seems to be correct. Anyway, there
> are many problems that need to be corrected after the normal
> text translation. They are:
>
> - Correct the position of the texts, adding break line commands
> when needed (lots of places).
> - Reducing as much as possible the sentences, without modifying
> its meaning. If your sentences are bigger than the original ones
> (in bytes), you'll spend memory mapper pages to store the extra
> bytes needed. This way, each about 12Kb of extra texts will need a new
> mapper page, increasing the memory need (the other 4kb is used for
> message addressing purposes... this is not fixed, thought).
>
> My target is use only ONE extra memory mapper page. And it looks
> I'll be able to do it... fortunatelly, most translated texts fits
> on the place of the original message... thank God the game was made
> originaly with double byte characters. ((((^=
Comparison between the English and the Spanish translations:
English Spanish
Increase
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Disk 1 107 113 +6
Kbytes
Disk 2 201 210 +9
Kbytes
Disk 3 187 196 +9
Kbytes
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
495 519
+24
Kbytes
Then, do I have to reduce the actual size of the Spanish texts?
I think that it won't be a good idea beacuse the translation will lose quality.
Ivan
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