How to *not* translate a character name

[srksrk 68]

Hello,

I have a game where a character has the name "June". Now when translation comes into play, this name is translated by the say function to, e.g. German "Juni" which is the translation for the month "June" into German. However, I do not want to translate that character's name but only the occurances where the month is meant, e.g. in the savegame dialog. How can this be achieved?

The character is defined as:

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june = Character('June', color='c2e8cd')

In the game script we have something like this:

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june "something"

The resulting say dialog box in the German translated game displays:

Juni
irgendwas

This is not what I want. How can I make this into the following?

June
irgendwas

[BrumaDev]

I'm not 100% sure I understand the question, however, you can single out a translation by adding "_()" to it. e.g:

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june = Character(_("June"), color='c2e8cd')

Which will prompt the translation engine to always translate that singled out piece of text as whatever you want it to be. In theory it would let you keep it consistent through languages. (Just translate "june" as "june")

[Ocelot]

#
Text tags beginning with # are ignored, but can be included to distinguish strings for the purpose of translation.
"New{#playlist}"

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-#

[srksrk 68]

I'm not 100% sure I understand the question, however, you can single out a translation by adding "_()" to it. e.g:

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june = Character(_("June"), color='c2e8cd')

Which will prompt the translation engine to always translate that singled out piece of text as whatever you want it to be. In theory it would let you keep it consistent through languages. (Just translate "june" as "june")

#
Text tags beginning with # are ignored, but can be included to distinguish strings for the purpose of translation.
"New{#playlist}"

https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-#

Thanks for the replies, but that does not seem to be what I am looking for...

The first solution is for the other way round, to achieve that character names are translated. I do want them to be *not* translated.

The second solution I cannot bring to work. If I write "#June", it will be displayed as #June, i.e. not translated but with a leading #. If I write "{#June}", nothing will be displayed as the whole tag is being ignored. And if I write "{#<something>}June" or "June{#<something>}" or similar, the # tag will be ignored but June will still be translated.

Also, I would rather like to have a solution where *no* character name is being translated, not just those that I rename in a specific manner. I hoped that would be possible because I find so many solutions like the first one above, for achieving exactly what I want to avoid. So I hoped that must be possible somehow...

Edit: typos.

[Ocelot]

if I write "{#<something>}June" or "June{#<something>}" or similar, the # tag will be ignored but June will still be translated.

By whom? The purpose of # tag is to generate different translatable entries for June{#month} and June{#chatacter}. Then you can just... not translate entries you don't want.

Also, I would rather like to have a solution where *no* character name is being translated, not just those that I rename in a specific manner.

While this is might not be on your list of priorities, but if your game will be translated into language using non-latin alphabet, all names will have to be translated, or, rather, transliterated.

[srksrk 68]

if I write "{#<something>}June" or "June{#<something>}" or similar, the # tag will be ignored but June will still be translated.

By whom? The purpose of # tag is to generate different translatable entries for June{#month} and June{#chatacter}. Then you can just... not translate entries you don't want.

Also, I would rather like to have a solution where *no* character name is being translated, not just those that I rename in a specific manner.

While this is might not be on your list of priorities, but if your game will be translated into language using non-latin alphabet, all names will have to be translated, or, rather, transliterated.

Thanks, I now figured it out. You need to give the # tag in the translation file as well, and in the say dialogs. For example:

old "{#month}June"
new "{#month}Juni"

This way, a character with name "June" will not be translated.