More Languages

ok like pseudocode or something:
EN_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE_ONE = "hi";
EN_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE_TWO = "bye";
//and so on for other languages

//0=english, 1=spanish, 2=chinese assuming zero-index array; store data in comment so as to not forget assigned languages to numbers
var pickedLanguage;
openLanguageMenu();
//example: pick english in cool language menu
if (english) then {

pickedLanguage = 0;​

} else {
//etc
}

EN_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE = [EN_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE_ONE,EN_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE_TWO]; //with short-hand for variable names of course so you don't have this massive difficult to parse through thing
ES_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE = [ES_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE_ONE,ES_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE_TWO]; //also idk if i'm using good form with variable naming right now but i don't care ok
ZH_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE = [ZH_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE_ONE,ZH_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE_TWO];

QUEST_MEME_PARTONE = [EN_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE,ES_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE,ZH_QUEST_MEME_PARTONE];

//woah quest dialogue has been triggered
iferror(displayText(pickedLanguage)) {

displayText(0);​

}

//righto now that that's done with some potential shortened variable names: EN_Q_MEME_I_I; EN_Q_MEME_I_II; EN_Q_MEME_I; or y'know, if you really want to conserve space something weird like MEME_ENQIxII

sorry for my lack of skill with knowing how event listeners look anywhere
hope that helps

 

Wait, shouldn't you be dead or something? In like the third world with first/second world memories or whatever. Is there even wifi there? Like how the hell are you communicating with us?

But it will take like... a lot of time to get all the translations for up to 8-12 languages to translate each quest, each line of dialogue, possibly enemy names, etc.

 

I am god

 

You're suggesting we run it through minecraft's system to pick up on the source language of the user automatically, right?
That's possible, and would probably considerably reduce the lag from my option, but it'd take a lot of time.
It wouldn't take "that" much time by code standards, but it'd still be annoying to do for a buncha languages.

 

what no like you get a cool language menu thing
don't think servers can read user global language setting, but if they can that works too

 

The minecraft language is clientside, what means that the server can't read it. I would do it like that: a command like "/toggle language <name of the language>", and whenever the server "says" something to a player, he reads it out of a table with as many columns as languages translated. If a translation doesn't exist, the english version of the message is used instead, so translations could be added step-by-step.