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Localizing Unity games as an indie dev

by bmalicoat on 2/9/23, 7:27 PM with 13 comments

• by matthew-wegner on 2/9/23, 8:25 PM

  Unity's own localization package is actually pretty good, and one of the few Unity packages that actually seems to solve more problems than it creates: https://docs.unity3d.com/Packages/com.unity.localization@1.4...

• by aschearer on 2/9/23, 7:43 PM

  Neat, thanks for releasing this tool! I've had luck with i2 loc in other projects, but will take a look at this next time. Also, to shamlessly co-opt this thread, you might be interested in a tool I wrote a while back: https://github.com/aschearer/LocWarden

  It's sort of like lint for loc files, catching common translation errors I've come across as well as helping generate common loc assets e.g. Steam store markup.

• by Raymonf on 2/9/23, 8:21 PM

  > One for Japanese and Chinese

  Please don't do this! Han Unification causes your Japanese text look weird when displayed with a Simplified Chinese font, likewise with a Traditional Chinese or Korean font.

  https://heistak.github.io/your-code-displays-japanese-wrong/

• by candiddevmike on 2/9/23, 10:10 PM

  Related, I made a tool to convert a YAML file with localizations into type safe go/typescript code. Anyone interested in it?