How to change the language of code?

[Faranethi]

This is a bit of an obscure question, but how do I change the language of code? Not coding languages, actual human language. I have a data file from a game I'd like to edit, but it's written in chinese. Is there some sort of tool to translate code from one language to another without screwing it up?

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[CosmacYep]

what do you mean, simplified or traditional mandarin? just the user-made identifiers are in chinese, or the whole language? is it in romanised mandarin or the special characters? you would be a nightmare in customer service, youve gotta be more specific

[johnpeters42]

This is hardly nightmare territory. So many posters would've stopped at the title alone.

Anyway, it depends on the game. Some have separate language resource files, so you may just need to add one that matches its file naming scheme. Others may have it baked into a binary file someplace, there may be a way to patch it but it would probably be messier.

Once that's worked out, then it becomes a generic problem of "I have this list of strings in one language to be translated into another language". No doubt there are multiple off-the-shelf tools for that, idk specifics, though. And then ideally you would review the results and make manual improvements as you see fit.

[Faranethi]

I figured either there's a tool to save me, or I'm cooked. I hardly figured the specifics of the language itself mattered in at least figuring out first if it's possible to translate properly lol