[#SVC-311] Translate the OIHUD and Orientation Island Tutorials to languages other than English

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Translate the OIHUD and Orientation Island Tutorials to languages other than English

Created: 17/May/07 09:31 AM Updated: 21/Aug/08 07:52 AM

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~~SVC-461~~ Possibity to change language of the Orientation Guide.

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New Residents that aren't capable of English just have very low chance to complete the OI tutorials without help. Providing them with a HUD and with Tutorials in their mother tongue or any second language they're able to understand would help them a lot.

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Boroondas Gupte added a comment - 17/May/07 09:37 AM

IMHO this is even more important (and sure easier to implement) than translations of the viewer itself. People often are used (or can get used) to use a program in a foreign language but are stuck as soon as content is in the foreign language, too. (Reading and understanding 'technical' advices written in whole sentences takes much more knowledge of a language than navigating a menu does.)

As long as the viewer translations are beta (and rather buggy) the translated tutorials and HUD should assume an English (default) viewer for the instructions they give.

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Boroondas Gupte added a comment - 17/May/07 10:31 AM

While implementation on the HUD is probably trivial once the translation itself is done* (either different HUDs for different languages, all available in the Inventory's Library or only one HUD with a language switch on the HUD itself) things will be trickier on the inworld part of the tutorials. If there won't be put up different Orientation Islands for different languages (like it was done with the 'old' Orientation Island for German on the Goethe and Hazzlehoff SIMs) then those inworld tutorial stations with text output will have to detect what HUD the respective resident has attached or (for the one-HUD-for-all solution) what language it's set to.

*I'm ready to help with the German one. Is there any preferred format for contributing on this? (as I can't alter the OIHUD directly)

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Iridium Linden added a comment - 24/Jul/07 04:12 PM

I believe the OIHUD has been translated into German, Japanese, and Korean. I'll double check on this, but I had to go through OI the other day, and I remember the multiple language option. However, it's quite a new feature and wasn't around when you created this task, Boroondas.

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Boroondas Gupte added a comment - 25/Jul/07 02:16 AM

Thanks for the hint. I checked with the copy on SL Volunteer OI, which is labeled version 2.0, and it's got something on it which looks like Korean to me. I'm closing this issue now, but please keep adding languages

Also, it'd be good if one could revise one's choice of language even after the the second screen. (For example if someone clicked the wrong one by accident or just wanted to know what another language looks like.) see ~~SVC-461~~