Godot: Add pr (Pirate English) as a locale

[hcorion]

I'd be willing to work on this locale. Other projects, like the Sponge docs have Pirate English as a locale.

Requested by me matey, punto-
Yarr! I be swabbin' th' decks for this locale. Me other buckos over yonder are swabbin' the decks o' their own locale.

[akien-mga]

That would be cool, but PT is the country code for Portugal, so that's very misleading.

[akien-mga]

Looks like Weblate (the platform we use for translations) has a pr language: https://hosted.weblate.org/languages/pr/

[hcorion]

I've also seen en_PI
EDIT: just realizing now that en_PR would be better because it's officially supported 😛

Requested by me matey, punto-
Me keen eye's also seen en_PI, a mightly fine locale.
EDIT: Avast! I be squiffy, PR be the best locale, because me captain favors er'. ☠️

[hcorion]

So, how might I go about adding a language to weblate? Would someone with admin rights have to do that?

[akien-mga]

Have fun: https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/godot-engine/godot/pr/ :)

[SuperUserNameMan]

the list of fake useless languages is long.
how many of them will Godot support ?

[akien-mga]

@SuperUserNameMan As many as people want to contribute?

Nobody forces you to use them, so no need to tell people what they're interested in is useless.

[Sslaxx]

But why should Godot support them?

[akien-mga]

Why not?

[SuperUserNameMan]

As many as people want to contribute?
Why not?

Ok then.

My little nephew would like to add the "areu" locale to Godot.
It is a language that he has invented.

Also, as a Startrek TNG fan , I think it would be cool to add "Klingon". The official ISO code is tlh.

Also, for Christmas, i would like to make a present to my brother.
As he reminds me the character Tilk from Stargate, I think it would be cool if we added the "Goa'uld" language support to Godot too.

As well, I'm willing to add a special fake useless fictional language support to Godot to make a present to each one of my friends according to their favorite fiction.

• the "Newspeak" for Tom, fan of the english version 1984.
• the "Novland" for Francis, fan of the french version of 1984.
• the "Neusprech", for Francsk, fan of the german version of 1984.
• the "Novaparla", for Pedro, fan of the catalan version of 1984.
• the "neolengua", for Juan, fan of the spanish version of 1984.
• the "Neolingua", for Emilia, fan of the italiana version of 1984.
• the "Newspeak", for Flukuluk, fan of the dutch version of 1984 (not to be confused with the english version)
• the "Uuskieli", for the Jorgen, fan of the suomi version of 1984.
• the "Novloc", for Julius, fan of the 1984 and of the Latin language.
• the "Nowomowa", for Juliana, fan of the polish version of 1984.
• the "novafala", for Jesus, fan of the Portuguese version of 1984.
• the "Novilíngua", for Ronaldina and Pakita, fan of the Bresilian version of 1984 (not to be confused with the portuguese local)
• the "Novlimba", for Dracula, fan of the Romanian version of 1984.
• the "Newspeak", for Sean, fan of the Scots version of 1984 (not to be confused with the english version)
• the "人工言語", for Yoshida, fan of the Japanese version of 1984.
• the "Искусственный язык", for Vladimir, fan of the russian version of 1984.

It's possible that i forgot some of my friends, so might come back to you with the rest of the list later with others batch.

Also, in the future, Godot might be used by Extraterrestrial species or stumbled uppon by extraterestrial archaologist. So I think it would be cool to add support for "aUI" and "Lincos" languages.

Should I open a new issue for each one of them, or is it okay that I make my list here ?

[akien-mga]

When you're done being an ass, you can start working on PO files for those. If the translations are good, we might include them.

[SuperUserNameMan]

that's not fair.
For english pirate you say it would be cool and you open a weblate.
and for my requests, you call me an ass and tell me i have to work on them on my own ?
what kind of dictator are you become ?

[akien-mga]

OP _is_ working on the English Pirate locale. And if translators are willing to work on it, then there's no reason not to include well translated languages.

If you _do_ want to work on the translations of all the languages you listed to show you're clever, I'll gladly add their templates to Weblate if the platform supports them. That costs less energy than having to cope with your ranting.

[akien-mga]

And as a matter of fact, I think having the editor talking Piratespeak would be cool :) So that makes already two people interested in it, which is more than your imaginary friends.

[punto-]

I think anyone who wants to argue for Pirate English must comment in Pirate
English to show how committed they are to it.

On 29 October 2016 at 11:07, Rémi Verschelde [email protected]
wrote:

And as a matter of fact, I think having the editor talking Piratespeak
would be cool :) So that makes already two people interested in it, which
is more than your imaginary friends.

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[RandomShaper]

I believe there is no harm in adding funny languages as long as users can always choose to use them or not and the list of them doesn't grow too long.

Another downside is that if a number of fantasy languages are added as time goes by, they will probably get outdated as maintainers get bored and abandon them.

And what about the docs? As soon as they are complete in English it would be nice to have them translated to the biggest possible subset of supported languages. And I wonder if the Elvish translators will be up to the task for very long.

Not that I am against this, but I'm surprised that opinions against are being so unpopular so I wanted to add my view.

[magpie514]

This is a complete waste of time and I am totally okay with it.

Would love to have it around for next talk-like-a-pirate-day.

[hubbyist]

These languages may be useful for thematic game contests in the future I suppose. ;)

[akien-mga]

@RandomShaper Well unless your system locale is pr_TORTUGA, it will of course be opt-in. If it grows unmaintained, git rm is not hard to use. Docs are not yet translated in real languages, so there won't be any focus on "fake" language for now. So I don't see anything wrong with giving freedom of choice. The _only_ downside is likely a few kB of text added to the editor binary. :)

[RandomShaper]

I guess I'm thinking here as an obsessive programmer whilst this area
requires another way of thinking.

I'd like to understand why people is so excited about this. I'm probably
missing something important in the videogame culture or some interesting
precedents.

[magpie514]

Well, it's good to be serious about work, but it's also good to have some fun once in a while.

[hcorion]

@RandomShaper
It could make work more fun. Instead of just debugging your game, your a buccaneer on a ship, with stacks sinking the sip (ie stack overflow) and nodes that need to walk the plank for one reason or another.
EDIT: It could also be a point of bragging. "Yeah, sure, your engine has real-time global illumination, but can it talk like a pirate?"

[akien-mga]

Fixed by ea87f0f :skull_and_crossbones:

[aaronfranke]

Shouldn't this be "en_PR" if it's a type of English ("en")?