Unable to find the $(you) string

[Volguus Zildrohar]

Hello all,

This is mainly a message for the administrators. I'm trying to find the string in Spanish for the variable $(you) but I can't, the search doesn't retrieve it. Is it available for us to change? If not, it should be replaced by 'Tú' (instead of the current 'Tu', without accent mark).

Apart from this, I have a technical question: in most of the sentences, this pronoun is removable (in fact, most sentences are much more idiomatic without it, since in Spansih the conjugated form of the verb carries information of the person it refers to). So. Would it be possible to remove the variable $(you) when necessary, without causing a crash in the program running behind?

Thanks in advance!

Gallardus

[sourisdudesert]

Hello Gallardus,

This point is a real issue. Let's take a simple example: if during a game, player "John" must play a card, there are 2 different display in the status bar:

• "John must play a card" is displayed for John's opponent (and spectators)
• "You must play a card" is displayed for John

In addition "John" or "You" is colored with John's color in the game.

For Spanish, considering no "you" is needed in this context, there are several solutions:

• Translate "you" with an empty string. In this case, the status would be correct, but the information about the color is lost (as there is no way to give a color to an empty string).
• Translate "you" by something like "Your turn:". With the example above, the status bar would display: "Your turn: <you must play a card in Spanish>". This way, "Your turn" is colored.
• Introduce a new feature for Spanish to replace "${you}" by the name of the current player followed by ":". It would display something like "John: <you must play a card in Spanish>"

I'm open to any of these solutions

Cheers

[Volguus Zildrohar]

Hi Sourisdudesert!

Thanks for your prompt response!

Although first option would be best in other circumstances, losing the feature of the color just seems wrong and against the 'personality' of BGA. So I think that third option would solve all the problems.

The point is: would it mean much work for you guys? Maybe it doesn't pay off...

Gallardus