CCP Heimdall
State War Academy
Caldari State
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Posted - 2011.11.18 15:09:00 -
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Leucy Kerastase wrote:About Japanese UI
First of all, I would like to Thank CCP for implementing the Japanese UI. It seems not all elements are translated yet but are we going to see the Japanese UI implemented in the coming Crucible expansion ?
About the font. The font used in Japanese UI is very bad. The Japanese font has always been crappy in EVE but was tolerable since we would see them only in our chat windows. Having to See this crappy, cheap, skinny, Windows 98ish font now all over our EVE client is really demotivating.
I suggest, if possible, using the new EVE font for at least alphabetical and numeral characters. I happened to encounter a bug when switching language from Japanese to English repeatedly which accidentally showed alphabetical and numeral characters in new EVE font while Japanese characters in crappy Japanese font (but some what anti-aliased ? I'm not sure) and it looked far better than the normal Japanese UI.
Another thing I noticed about the Japanese UI is the word wrapping function causing ugly Japanese text layouts. Since normal Japanese sentences don't use space characters, having a single space character for some reason in a sentence sends the rest of the non-spaced sentence to the next line even if there is plenty of free space left in the current line. This is probably because the word wrap function recognizes the rest of the sentence as a single word. I suggest just disabling the word wrap function altogether for Japanese UI, or just make it function only for alphabetical and numeral character "clusters" so that it will prevent splitting a non-Japanese word in two by line breaking and yet leave Japanese sentences alone.
Thank you very much for the feedback, Leucy. On Crucible launch, the UI along with character creator and tutorial missions will be available in Japanese. This is only a preview version of the Japanese client- the client will be fully localized into Japanese in the Spring of 2012. In the meantime, (and a main point of this preview version is that) we hope to get as much feedback from the Japanese community as possible. We will then make changes in accordance with the feedback - that includes the font if the consensus is that our current font is not good enough. Also please let us know any other issues you note and we will do our best to get them fixed. Thanks! |