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[Wild Goose]

I've been thinking about making a Chinese mod for Dwarf Fortress.  Has this been done yet?
For me, this is partly so I can practice my Chinese skills; I'm a Chinese Conversationalist, but barely a Novice Chinese Record Keeper.

I'm a complete newb at modding, unfortunately; I think the most modding I ever did was to make sandy loam a sand.

I was thinking, the main thing would be to replace most of the Creature and Item symbols with equivalent Chinese Characters.
Is changing the commands and displayed information possible?

How should I start this?  Reading the modding guide on the wiki, I'm guessing I should try to make a graphics set of Chinese characters to replace the ASCII characters.

Does this sound like a feasible process?
Any hints, tips, and constructive (or humourous) feedback would be appreciated.

[MrWiggles]

*ducks and covers*

[Wild Goose]

That seems forboding.  I've commited some horribly obvious gaffe, or made some embarrassing mistake, huh?

[Jackrabbit]

It certainly sounds feasible and I think it has been done before. Don't think this means you can't continue. I can't really help but it'll probably work.

EDIT: Oh wait, I misread it. It won't work. Sorry

[Wild Goose]

Okay, what did I miss?

[Jackrabbit]

There is only a specific amount of characters available for use as items and creatures. The commands and display info is hard coded.

[blah28722]

I was thinking, the main thing would be to replace most of the Creature and Item symbols with equivalent Chinese Characters.

If you only want to replace the creatures itself, it'd probably be possible. You'll run into some problems on things like distinguishing weapon/armor types, corpses, and probably some other stuff I can't name right now.

I don't see a problem with what you're trying to do. You'd be able to replace what has already been changed by graphical tilesets.

[Jackrabbit]

If you drew the tilesets yourself you could, but I don't think you could change symbols to Chinese characters

[i2amroy]

Well, that is what he said.

How should I start this?  Reading the modding guide on the wiki, I'm guessing I should try to make a graphics set of Chinese characters to replace the ASCII characters.

[Wild Goose]

Okay...hmm, I could probably edit the raws and replace the names of items with their pinyin equivalents.  The quality tags and descriptions are probably also hardcoded, huh?
I could probably also go through the language file and replace Dwarven with pinyin.

What else can be changed?  Or is that about it?

[Greiger]

I think I read somewhere of somebody going through the exe and changing most things to german, but I may be mistaken.

Also not sure how Toady feels about such things since a while ago there used to be a list of files that were ok to mod in the readme. The exe was not one of them.  That particular section seems to have been removed from the more recent versions though, so I don't know what the official stance on it is anymore.

Good luck though.  All I know about chinese is that You don't engage Lu Bu.

[RadonPlasma]

Sadly, I think Greiger is right.  Neat as it would be, the main executable file is off the table for modding.  I don't know any Chinese either, but I think it's a fantastic idea anyway.  Linguistic diversity FTW.

You don't engage Lu Bu.

Damn right you don't.  You take the bypath, and head straight for Dong Zhuo!