SC4LTEXTT : SC4 LTEXT Translator  0.4

SC4LTEXT Translator is an assistant for translating SimCity 4 LTEXT files.

To use, select a DBPF file housing the LTEXT files you wish to translate. Choose the language you wish to translate to, and translate each of the desired LTEXT files, either manually or automatically via the Azure AI Text Translation service. Each LTEXT will turn green to indicate it has been translated. SC4LTEXTT can currently translate to all of the 18 languages supported in-game. More languages are possible; let me know if you have one you would like to add. An internet connection is required for the automatic translations.

Each LTEXT GID will be incremented by the appropriate offset for the translated language. Currently all LTEXT files are written uncompressed.

It is important to note that due to reported issues with how Reader handles text encoding, certain 4-byte characters will appear as garbage data when viewed in Reader. This applies to all characters of languages such as Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Japanese, but also certain diacriticals for European languages too. If you open a file containing LTEXTs with these characters in Reader, DO NOT SAVE. If you do, the correctly functioning (but merely incorrectly displayed) characters will be overwritten by Reader with the garbage displayed characters.

This program is an extension of @rivit's great little LTEXTER tool and aims to make translation of LTEXT files significantly easier by managing all translations within the app (no need to export/import/edit in an external text editor), and critically, provide the opportunity for automatic translations for all the languages supported by the game

Requirements

• Windows 10 or higher
• .NET7 runtime version > 7.0.0 - To determine which version is installed, open Command Prompt and type dotnet --list-runtimes. If the version is less than 7.0.0 installed, download the most recent version here. Alternatively, if you run the executable without the correct .NET runtime, you will receive an error message. Follow the prompts to download the correct version.

Downloading
Download from the STEX or visit the latest release on Github.

Support
This is an open source application. The source code and issue tracker are posted here. Requests or questions are welcomed here in the dedicated thread or in the Github issue tracker.