Suggestion Name:
Support for more language in game, including usernames, tags, and chat messages.
Suggestion Description:
I believe this has not been suggested before. I searched for multiple key words (Chinese, Language Support) and got no related result.
This problem may be caused by the partly unsupported Unicode, so I searched "Unicode" in forums and found this.
The suggestion is "Done" but apparently the problem was forgotten and left unsolved.
This suggestion is not just for convience issues. I only understand Chinese and English, so I only talk about Chinese and Taiwan ETS2MP players here. Because ETS2MP does not support Chinese characters, Chinese players have to use Pinyin(Very hard to understand even for native Chinese speakers!) to communicate. One day, ETS2MP updated (Sorry, I forgot the version, but it was around May 2015) and Chinese characters were displayed in TAB menu correctly. Chinese users were very happy about this update, and many predicted that ETS2MP would gain full support for Chinese language in chat. However, after the next update, everything disappeared and every user was disappointed. Chinese ETS2MP players are complaining in their own community all the time after the ETS2MP first release, and I was surprised that my question was never suggested before. This does NOT show that ETS2MP officials are doing perfectly. The fact is: Chinese users are not feeling welcomed by the ETS2MP community. I am not expressing this feeling for myself, but for all users whose languages are not supported in game.
I sincerely hope that one day (hopefully soon) all languages will be supported in ETS2MP. If this could not be done in a short range of time because of any difficulty, please tell me the reason so at least these Chinese users will know the difficulty and understand the ETS2MP developers.
Any example images:
First, I logged in ETS2MP with a Chinese name. Meaning of the name is "Chinese Language Test".
Then, I opened tab menu and saw all Chinese characters turned into question marks. In the best update that I mentioned above, it was displayed normally in Chinese.
I sent a test message and my username also showed as question marks.
When I tried to input Chinese words into chat, all of them are also turned into question marks.
Why should it be added?
The most simple and direct reason: for the convenience of all users. ETS2MP is a global community so its in-game language has to be global.
For some more reason, please read the warning and continue.
This part may include prejudice and racial topics.
Users: Please stop here if you feel offended.
Moderators: Please edit or close this thread if I break any forum regulation.
Here are some feedback from the Chinese Sub-forum of the ETS2MP language forums. Both posts were originally quoted from Chinese ETS2MP users with clickable links, and do not affect my personal opinion because I do NOT agree with them. In this part, I am only a translator showing you how some users think about us. Because if I do not, you will never know.
1
Translation: None of the ETS2MP staff speaks Chinese. Although you have the ability, they will look down upon you because of discrimination. You will know more if you go to their TS3 server.
2
Translation: There's nothing to be happy about, because we are in an isolation!
The "discrimination" is more about a prejudice than a truth, since I've been here for quite a long time and I'm feeling good with everyone here. However, there are many users who actually believe in the prejudice, and there is a very clear and direct reason why they think so. We do not feel the discrimination because people do not behave in the way we prefer: we admit that we are a minority of ETS2MP community, and English is the global language. We feel the discrimination because we do not have the rights to display our names and communicate in game using our own languages. It becomes a shame for us when we have to abandon our own language to get a name instead of some meaningless question marks.
--------edited multiple times to fix pictures and links.