Changing Client Language

Over at Titan, I'm working on multi-language support for badge verification.

I've currently signed up for a trial on the EU servers to test some of this stuff, but I'm looking at a more long-term solution.

Is it possible to change the client's display language without connecting to the foreign servers? I'm talking about the general, system generated stuff.

I found an old link via a Google search, but couldn't quite get it to work correctly. Might just be my brain being fried for tonight.

This is the only thing I found:
Changing the Game's Language

But of course it mentions "a registry key that is not present in the US client".

Would the US client recognize it if you created it anyway?

This is the only thing I found:
Changing the Game's Language

But of course it mentions "a registry key that is not present in the US client".

I'm guessing you tried to create it anyway but the US client didn't recognize it? I'm out of any other guesses.

Eureka! *runs through the town naked*

erm >.>

Pseudo-solution found:

I had kinda tried the key change, but wasn't having any luck. It would work when launching CohUpdater.EU.exe, but the US client wouldn't keep the setting.

I played around with it a bit, and it turns out that the US updater is actually resetting "Installer Language" and "Locale" every time it launches. When the actual game launches, it reads these and sets the settings.

Here's the workaround I found:
1. Load the US Patcher. Do not click anything here yet.
2. Run Regedit (at your own risk, I guess)
2a. Changing "Installer Language" to the appropriate code (1031 for german, 1036 for French)
2b. Delete the "Locale" key from the Coh folder (This is the important one, as it appears to override the "Installer Language" key.
3. Tab back over to the Patcher, Click "Next ->" and agree to the EULA.
4. The program should load display the splash screen with the "LOADING" text in the appropriate language.

Note again that the registry keys will be reversed the next time you fire up the patcher, so it isn't a permanent solution. But it'll work for my purposes

Thanks for re-triggering a brainstorm

Whoops, looks like I celebrated a bit too soon *doh*

Doing this translates the bulk of the UI, but there are still some chat messages and such that are in English. *boggles a bit, desides to sleep on it*

I'm not sure if this will help you or not, but to save you a little bit of trouble, you could probably "Export" the necessary registry keys to a file and "reinstall" them at the appropriate time, without having to open regedit every time.

As for the language not changing in some places.. what happens if you change the value of "Locale"?

So again, I post something, then try and get results -.-

It turns out that changing the language in the Euro client actually modifies the "Locale" Reg key for you. I duplicated this change in the American client and found out that it does affect the UI settings.

Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to change the power/badge messages, or the badge flavor text (mentioned above). It seems as though this information isn't actually stored in the client, but (my assumption) is instead sent to the client by the server in the server's native language.