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NTJedi

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Deciphering Dwarf Names
« on: May 10, 2012, 07:17:11 pm »

This fella has four names and one of them is tremendously long.   Is there some dwarf dictionary where we can decipher names like the one below or does the game just jumble letters together when creating names?

« Last Edit: May 10, 2012, 07:47:09 pm by NTJedi »
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khearn

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Re: Deciphering Dwarf Names
« Reply #1 on: May 10, 2012, 07:22:36 pm »

I see no name in the image. Did you get the right one?
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NTJedi

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Re: Deciphering Dwarf Names
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2012, 07:47:40 pm »

My bad...  saved the wrong image file... uploaded the correct one.
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Re: Deciphering Dwarf Names
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2012, 08:06:53 pm »

The dwarf language files can be found in /data/raw/objects/language_DWARF.txt
« Last Edit: May 10, 2012, 08:09:13 pm by zombie urist »
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Re: Deciphering Dwarf Names
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2012, 10:05:24 pm »

IIRC it should give you a translation when you go into their description or maybe status.  Could be wrong though.
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Re: Deciphering Dwarf Names
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2012, 07:38:34 pm »

This fella has four names and one of them is tremendously long.   Is there some dwarf dictionary where we can decipher names like the one below or does the game just jumble letters together when creating names?



"construct veilfountain the velvet urn-mother of tin"

it's actually kind of a pretty, feminine sort of name

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Re: Deciphering Dwarf Names
« Reply #6 on: May 13, 2012, 01:47:23 am »

the V key doesnt show its english name?
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lazygun

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Re: Deciphering Dwarf Names
« Reply #7 on: May 13, 2012, 07:09:58 am »

You can get all but the first name by looking up the dwarf's profile. But the first name never gets translated and you have to work it out from the language files or finding another dwarf who has that as part of their surnames.
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Re: Deciphering Dwarf Names
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2012, 03:15:37 pm »

For looking up first names I find that language_DWARF.txt + find command works rather well.
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