Italian Translation

[Luca Red]

Hi! I'm a big fan of RollerCoaster Tycoon, so I find this project really awesome. I'd like to contribute as much as I can, but I'm not a coder, so I could help with the translation. My first language is Italian.

How could I send a translation? I think I should download the English language file (from https://code.google.com/p/freerct/source/browse/trunk#trunk%2Fgraphics%2Frcd%2Flang ), translate it with a text editor and then submit an issue on the Google Code page. Am I right?

[Lord Aro]

That is correct, we look forward to your contribution :)

Of course, bare in mind that the texts themselves will change regularly

[Luca Red]

Have you ever heard about Gettext? ( http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/ )

I think it could be easier for both developers and translators to mantain updated lang files without too much hassle!

[Alberth]

Hmm, I might have send you a personal reply, instead of a post. Sorry about that.
I repeat the answer here for the discussion.

Yes I looked at Getttext, and compared it with the language system in use by OpenTTD. I found it lacking at least one fundamental language concept. Since adding new concepts to a system that widely used is pretty much impossible, I rejected Gettext as solution until now.