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Would it be possible to translate the entire game into Esperanto?


InDarkestNight

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Its just an idea I had. Of course, honestly, I'm not sure it can even be done. I don't know anything about translation mods due to my native language being English. Is it actually possible to translate the game into languages it doesn't already support? The main problem for Esperanto in particular are all the new letters it adds. I know its possible to replace the font, but can you add entirely new characters? Also, is it even possible to change the text for things like the menu or start screen?

If none of these things are possible, then I would assume such a mod could never be made. Regarding the extra letters thing, I would think you could do a cheeky thing by making a custom font that replaced some of the numbers or other lesser-used characters with the new letters. Seriously, how often does things like [, ], {, }, \, |, / and such come up in strings in this game? Honestly though, if all else fails, you could just use the digraphs people often use online when they can't type the circumflex letters.

It would certainly be an interesting project, but like I said I don't know if it could even be done. Can you edit the text in menus, message boxes, the journal, and the start menu? Can you expand the variety of letters the game can display? Would it be possible to make a mod like this? And yes, I know it would be a massive project translating every single string in this game from dialogue to item names, but let's be real gigantic mods aren't exactly new to Skyrim.

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Easiest way would be to translate "Voice" Files! You'll need some money and good voice actor/actress s, however.

What you are asking, is a little bit more complicated!

In Short, Skyrim Engine Supports Cyrillic and Latin Alphabet Systems, for example, it`s easy to translate game text files into Bulgarian and Polish, using Cyrillic and Latin alphabets, respectively.

So, basically, if a langauge, uses one of them, or both, like Serbian, It can be done.

Meanwhile, the engine does not Support some language like Greek, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic and Persian, AFAIK. You'll need extra programs to do this.

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Well, like I said, even if additional alphabetical letters couldn't be added, you could 'cheat' by replacing non-letter keys that are never used. Even then, you could just use the common digraphs Esperantists have long used in place of the new letters (cx, sx, hx, ux, jx, gx, etc...) So in theory even if the game was limited to the Latin alphabet, you could still technically type Esperanto in it. I'm more interested in knowing if its possible to change the text of things like message boxes and the game's menus and start screen. I would assume its possible to change item names and descriptions, but what about things that aren't technically in-game objects?

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That`s also possible! all of those menus, have text files! translate it to any language, you want. it`s called localization.

I`ll try to find an example of Persian translations and localization to show you it`s doable.

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