How to Implement Chinese Language Support (Simplified & Traditional) in a ChoiceScript Game?

[Lan]

@cup_half_empty

a sort of thing everyone just takes as truth, like “they’ll never publish a game with script command in it.” I’ve never seen a position from them and never seen any author saying they tried but had to remove it, but every time the topic comes up someone will mention the invisible rule, so it self-perpetuates.

A decade old, but:

@Malebranche

Does the latest version of CS support *script modding and CSS mods?

@dfabulich

Those are policy decisions, not technical issues. Obviously *script and CSS mods work today. But running arbitrary *script on choiceofgames.com is a security risk, so it’s very unlikely that we’ll ever allow that in games we host.

@Malebranche

Couldn’t you (theoretically without thinking about work time it would take) check and fleece stuff like that from COG’s end?

@dfabulich

I can’t write code that looks for “evil” *script. I can manually review *script commands, but that’s painful and time consuming. I guess I could whitelist some known-good *script, but normally I do that by adding features to ChoiceScript, converting *script to non-*script code.

[emarto411]

You might experiment with custom JavaScript to manage translations in your game. Playing around with JSON for storing text and UTF-8 for encoding could help tackle font issues.