Re: [bos-dev] implement Chinese?

[llearch n'n'daCorna <bos@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 12:13:22AM +0800, Olaf wrote:
> Imagine it this way: A program displays text graphically by grabbing  
> words from an image. Every word in the original text file appears in a  
> dictionary, and has page and line number assigned, so it can easily be  
> looked up. Since page and line number are needed to address the right  
> word, the program needs to scan the whole dictionary into a large image,  
> even though it only needs about 150 words...

Ouch.

Fair enough. I guess someone needs to edit the PNG generation app. And
possibly the code that uses the PNG, in the game, since that's likely
made with the same assumptions.

> Yeah, I didn't see much activity on the mailing list. Really bad, I like  
> C&C, and BOS Wars is relatively close to it... Unfortunately, I'm not as  
> comfortable with computer languages as I am with human ones, so each  
> time I run into a problem like this, I'm pretty much stuck without 
> help...

Sadly, much of the activity is in the IRC channel. Which makes the
mailing list interesting, but incomplete.

OTOH, the IRC channel is logged and is available online, as well, so
that's at least something...