Thanks again for anwsering my question on translation. Some more on that subject.
First thing first : Should I say that I would gladly build a team for the french translation
or was it clear enough already 
? Now back to work: Will you agree/be able to provide translation strings a little in advance to translation team so we could make it happen at the same time of the English version ? (even if you said a few weeks later in your post) (maybe that could even be a part of the beta testing phase ?)
What format will be used for translation ? po editor ? (this is the one used on the battle of wesnoth project sorry for the pub
) Have you thought of providing a way (an easy one ?) for gender distinction in language ? In english there is the her/his and such like but for many languages there may be more difficulties on that subject. And it is always difficult to gain enough context on translation if you have not the application running at the exact place. Have you managed to deal with the cyrilic issue ? (not that I speak lots of russian myself but...)
There are also some other thing to think of like the length of text if they are to appear on a specific place. Things like substitution, like the need to put the name of a person you dealt with or a summary of a past action in the flow of dialog. And there is the thing like the riddles. Most difficult thing to translate but they are the cherry on the translation work. However if there is a visual hint in one of the sprite (like a letter carved in the stone above the chest you have to open with the riddle), it needs to be planned for modification in the language pack...
Some quick thought on that subject that matters for me
Thanks again
What we are doing now is keeping 98% of the text in external .txt files so that it can be translated line-by-line using a word processor. In the text we use symbols for help in substituting words....for example, $ means to use the player's character name in the text. Asterisks * are used to force a carriage return. I picked symbols that would not come up in other languages or be needed to be used in the text itself (for example, I don't say that a sword is $90, but rather 90 gold pieces.)
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