Re: [Enigma-devel] The Russian Translation

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

Ludmian Sedai wrote:
> I tried to contact you on this subject a couple of times, but for some 
> reason I got no reply, and I can't find my messages in the mailing list 
> archive. I don't know if it's because you didn't recieve my e-mail 
> (because I wasn't subscribed to the mailing list or for some other 
> reason) or besause my message was deleted by the moderators as 
> presenting no interest for the developers. If it's the latter, I 
> apologize for my insistense. I'm writing to you with the former reason 
> for your silence in mind.

The Savannah spam filters seem to be filtering out some contributions of 
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> First of all, I’d like to thank you for the game. It’s really a 
> remarkable project with so much thought and effort put into it. Hope you 
> won’t give it up and we’ll see many new levels (as well as objects, 
> floors, etc.) in the future.

There will be many more levels in the next release :-)

> Now to the subject matter. I usually play Enigma with the English 
> language chosen in the options. But occasionally, when I come across 
> some interesting document in the game I wonder how it was translated 
> into Russian and switch on to the Russian language to see this. Quite 
> often I see errors in the translation (both factual errors and those of 
> stylistic nature), sometimes the text is not translated at all (for 
> example, the Knight’s remark /All right! Let’s call it a draw/). Please, 
> don’t get me wrong. In no way would I like to diminish the effort of the 
> translator. The translation was done by an enthusiast who must have 
> invested a lot of his time and effort so that people who might have been 
> put off by the absence of the Russian version could enjoy Enigma. But 
> the translation can be improved, thus making the game more playable for 
> the Russian speakers. I'd like to offer you my help in editing the 
> Russian translation. The problem is that I’m an ordinary PC user who  
> has no in-depth knowledge of computers, so I might need some guidance 
> from you if you choose to give me this task.  Of course, I don’t claim 
> that the translation will become faultless, but at least I’ll try to 
> remove the most obvious errors that may be annoying/misleading for those 
> who use the Russian version of the game.

We got some remarks of other Russian native speakers, too. Indeed Сергей 
did translate all the strings in a remarkable short period of time.

Just yesterday I received a mail from Юрий, our homepage translator, 
asking for updates of the Russian translation of the levels. I will give 
him some technical advice and will add you to the CC list of Russian 
speaking contributors. I hope you all together will be able to finish up 
the translation and to add the missing strings of the recent 1.01 levels.

Thanks,

Ronald