Help with new locale: Scrabble3D Scottish Gaelic gd

Hi folks,

We'd like to localise Scrabble 3D into our language (Scottish Gaelic, gd) - I've looked around for a guide to localisation but still not entirely sure.

If I understand correctly, a large part of the job is to translate the .lang file? Also, what options are there to do plural formatting in this game as Gaelic needs 4 plural forms.

Beyond that, there's also the question of letter graphics (for the to date unsupported letters) and statistics which I don't know how they're handled (our language doesn't have a card version of Scrabble). We have stats for letter frequencies which I did for a dice-based version of Scrabble, hopefully that should help.

Any help would be greatly appreciated - English or German is fine with us.

Cheers

Dear akerbeltzalba,

Welcome to our Scrabble3D Forum!!! This is really a great idea! Awesome!!! Phantastic!!!

Let me explain to you:

If you translate the *.lang-file to Scottish Gaelic, you will only see the interface of the program in Gaelic language, which, however would be great!
But if you want to play Scrabble3D in Gaelic, too - which I think you want to do! - you need a Gaelic word list, a gaelic.dic, to be loaded in the program!

About the special Gaelic letters we can surely help you! Everything is possible in Scrabble3D!


A free Gaelic word list to start with can be downloaded from here:

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki..._.28Scotland.29

That's the Open Office spellchecking list! But we don't know anything about the quality of that list yet, nothing about the inflected forms, nothing! We only know that for example the Hungarian or the Latin Open Office spellchecking list contains so many words that are not valid in Scrabble (names for example), that it will absolutely be necessary to work on that list in order to improve it and make it suitable for playing Scrabble3D.


Since I have worked a lot with Scrabble3D localization and know (nearly) everything about how it works, I would be very very pleased if I could help you!

I will start a separate forum for Scottish Gaelic, where we could discuss (in English or German language) all the questions you have.



Yours sincerely,
Bussinchen


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PS:

Let me ask you: Do you have Skype?
Look here in my profile --> u252490_Bussinchen.html (in German)

As far as I can see in your Twitters, there are not so very special letters in Gaelic language, only normal accents like in Italian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Gaelic_alphabet

Is it really necessary to have letters with accents in Gaelic Scrabble? In Hungarian, yes - but in Italian or French, for instance, no letters with accents are ever used in Scrabble.

Please have a look on the Dutch Wikipedia site, where you can see different international letter sets (unfortunately not the Gaelic one).

Maybe the Scrabble board game does not exist in Gaelic language at all? So Scrabble3D would be a phantastic possibility for you to play in Gaelic finally, and it would really be great if you could help Scrabble3D to be more international by working on gaelic.lang and gaelic.dic files!

Please continue the discussion about Scrabble3D in Gaelic here --> Scottish Gaelic gd Localization for Scrabble3D