Translation of UI and pins to other languages

[Pocq]

Hi,
currently many texts of the UI are translated to english but since after 4.0 there hasn't been any updates. I'd like to suggest a way to make it easier for the community to contribute to these translations. I don't know much about programming or software development. But some of the users including me noticed that the map pins, and the text files are editable .json files. The most convenient solution would be to have these translation files somewhere where the community can update them, such as GitHub itself, and then have the software download those files. This way translation to other languages would be much faster.
That option it's probably time consuming and the developers may not have the time.

Another option that I tried but didn't work was to manually replace the files but since all texts and translations get a forced update/download at launch, the files get replaced. So a simpler solution may be to have an option inside the program to toggle this behaviour. I still don't know if this would work, but since these discussions threads are open I thought about asking.

I've already translated many texts of the UI from 4.0 to 4.4 and shared them in the Discord if you need them. And if one of the above options is possible I could even start translating all the map pins with automatic translations and some manual tweaking to have fairly accurate translations.

Thank you for all the hard work.

[pro4up]

Hi,
There are several possible implementation options.

The first one is uploading the database to Google Sheets, for example, for further translation and uploading back to the program.
The advantages are that it will be possible to implement optional translation in tables.
And for example, first run everything through neural networks, and then gradually add manual translation.
It will be possible to customize the scripts for unloading to preferentially use manual translation.
We did this when translating in the Blue Protocol mod.

The second option is more complicated. You can also think of a platform to upload the translation database to.
But instead of using neural networks, you can write a script that can interact with the interactive official map and can collect data from there to form a database with ready translation from players.

There is also an alternative 2nd option, it is to agree with the developers of other interactive maps that have a database in other languages to use the ready-made version.
For example, when we did the translation for Blue Protocol, the developer of the wiki for the game kindly shared with us a glossary for the translation, which sped up the process many times over.

There are actually a lot of different implementation options here, you just have to pick one. In fact, it would be cool if genshin impact developers would cooperate with the community, helping to implement various game tools (which do not violate the rules of the game).

[boxsnake]

For the pin texts, there is a long period before you can use it. But you can do it in advance by making a table with four fields: ID, title, description, target language (locale).

It is hard to get translated texts from official map since their pins and their coordinate system are quite different from ours. It will take much more time in pairing data.

For pins, using anything like Spreadsheet or Google Docs may not be a good option. Some pin descriptions are extremly long (about 1000+ characters), and which may excess the limit for spreadsheet cells.

[boxsnake]

For the UI stuff, sorry that there were something wrong with translation generation. I just fixed that about a month ago.