Add a pseudolocalization - just English with ümläuts/étç everywhere.

Makefile.common

@@ -397,6 +397,11 @@ endif
 endif
 
 ifeq ($(HAVE_MENU_COMMON), 1)
+   ifeq ($(PSEUDOLOC), 1)
+      PSEUDO_NS := pseudo
+   else
+      PSEUDO_NS :=
+   endif
    OBJ += menu/menu.o \
 			 menu/menu_hash.o \
 			 menu/intl/menu_hash_de.o \
@@ -407,7 +412,7 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_MENU_COMMON), 1)
 			 menu/intl/menu_hash_nl.o \
 			 menu/intl/menu_hash_pl.o \
 			 menu/intl/menu_hash_pt.o \
-			 menu/intl/menu_hash_us.o \
+			 menu/intl/menu_hash_us$(PSEUDO_NS).o \
 			 menu/menu_input.o \
 			 menu/menu_entry.o \
 			 menu/menu_entries.o \

menu/intl/pseudolocalize.py

@@ -0,0 +1,121 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# coding=UTF-8
+
+# RetroArch - A frontend for libretro.
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2015 - Daniel De Matteis
+#
+#
+# RetroArch is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms
+# of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Found-
+# ation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# RetroArch is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
+# without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+# PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with RetroArch.
+# If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# You probably don't need this script. It's only needed to update menu_hash_uspseudo.c,
+# and that's not necessary either, because outdated translations fall back to English.
+
+# Usage: ./pseudolocalize.py < menu_hash_us.c > menu_hash_uspseudo.c
+
+replacements = {
+  # These characters all exist in ISO-8859-1.
+  #" ": "´¨¯¸",
+  "!": "¡",
+  "?": "¿",
+  "a": "áàâåäã",
+  "A": "ÁÀÂÅÄÃ",
+  "c": "ç",
+  "C": "Ç",
+  "D": "Ð",
+  "e": "éèêë",
+  "E": "ÉÈÊË",
+  "i": "íìîï",
+  "I": "ÍÌÎÏ",
+  "n": "ñ",
+  "N": "Ñ",
+  "o": "óòôöõø",
+  "O": "ÓÒÔÖÕØ",
+  "u": "úùûü",
+  "U": "ÚÙÛÜ",
+  "y": "ýÿ",
+  "Y": "Ý",
+}
+
+import sys,random
+
+if sys.version_info >= (3, 0):
+    import io
+    sys.stdin = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdin.buffer, encoding='ISO-8859-1')
+    sys.stdout = io.TextIOWrapper(sys.stdout.buffer, encoding='ISO-8859-1')
+else:
+    import codecs
+    sys.stdin = codecs.getreader('ISO-8859-1')(sys.stdin)
+    sys.stdout = codecs.getwriter('UTF-8')(sys.stdout)
+    
+    nreplacements = {}
+    for k in replacements:
+        nreplacements[k] = replacements[k].decode("UTF-8")
+    replacements = nreplacements
+
+def pseudolocalize(string):
+    ret = ""
+    it = iter(string)
+    for ch in it:
+        if ch == '\\' or ch == '%':
+            ret += ch
+            ret += next(it)
+            continue
+        try:
+            if random.randint(0,2) == 0:
+                cand = replacements[ch]
+                ret += random.choice(cand)
+            else:
+                ret += ch
+        except KeyError:
+            ret += ch
+    return ret
+
+def pseudolocalize_code(string):
+    if '"' not in string: return string
+    if '"null"' in string: return string
+    if '"Main Menu"' in string: return string # RetroArch bug, this string can't be translated.
+    
+    parts = string.split('"')
+    parts[1] = pseudolocalize(parts[1])
+    return '"'.join(parts);
+
+print("/* Autogenerated, do not edit. Your changes will be undone. */")
+
+localize = False
+for line in sys.stdin:
+    line = line.strip("\n")
+    if 'force_iso_8859_1' in line: # nuke this because we're UTF-8 now
+        continue
+    elif 'menu_hash_to_str_' in line or 'menu_hash_get_help_' in line:
+        #line = line.replace("_us", "_pseudo")
+        if '_label' not in line: localize = True
+    if localize:
+        line = pseudolocalize_code(line)
+    print(line)
+
+# look for const char *menu_hash_to_str_us(uint32_t hash) and add a 'pseudo'
+for line in sys.stdin:
+    line = line.strip("\n")
+    if 'menu_hash_to_str' in line:
+        print(line.replace("(", "pseudo("))
+        break
+    print(line)
+
+# screw with all strings in the rest of the file
+# and add 'pseudo' to int menu_hash_get_help_us(uint32_t hash, char *s, size_t len)
+for line in sys.stdin:
+    line = line.strip("\n")
+    if 'force_iso_8859_1' in line: pass
+    elif 'menu_hash_get_help' in line:
+        print(line.replace("(", "pseudo("))
+    else:
+        print(pseudolocalize_code(line))