(svn r14480) -Add: warning when trying to use a right-to-left language without support for it in OpenTTD.

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/strings.cpp b/src/strings.cpp
index 5d85f8cf5..ee0ad8625 100644
--- a/src/strings.cpp
+++ b/src/strings.cpp
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@ struct LanguagePack {
 	char isocode[16];   // the ISO code for the language (not country code)
 	uint16 offsets[32]; // the offsets
 	byte plural_form;   // how to compute plural forms
-	byte pad[3];        // pad header to be a multiple of 4
+	byte text_dir;      // default direction of the text
+	byte pad[2];        // pad header to be a multiple of 4
 	char data[VARARRAY_SIZE]; // list of strings
 };
 
@@ -1273,6 +1274,7 @@ bool ReadLanguagePack(int lang_index)
 	ttd_strlcpy(_dynlang.curr_file, c_file, lengthof(_dynlang.curr_file));
 
 	_dynlang.curr = lang_index;
+	_dynlang.text_dir = (TextDirection)lang_pack->text_dir;
 	SetCurrentGrfLangID(_langpack->isocode);
 	SortNetworkLanguages();
 	return true;
@@ -1511,6 +1513,29 @@ void CheckForMissingGlyphsInLoadedLanguagePack()
 			}
 		}
 	}
+
+#if !defined(WITH_ICU)
+	/*
+	 * For right-to-left languages we need the ICU library. If
+	 * we do not have support for that library we warn the user
+	 * about it with a message. As we do not want the string to
+	 * be translated by the translators, we 'force' it into the
+	 * binary and 'load' it via a BindCString. To do this
+	 * properly we have to set the color of the string,
+	 * otherwise we end up with a lot of artefacts. The color
+	 * 'character' might change in the future, so for safety
+	 * we just Utf8 Encode it into the string, which takes
+	 * exactly three characters, so it replaces the "XXX" with
+	 * the color marker.
+	 */
+	if (_dynlang.text_dir != TD_LTR) {
+		static char *err_str = strdup("XXXThis version of OpenTTD does not support right-to-left languages. Recompile with icu enabled.");
+		Utf8Encode(err_str, SCC_YELLOW);
+		SetDParamStr(0, err_str);
+		ShowErrorMessage(INVALID_STRING_ID, STR_JUST_RAW_STRING, 0, 0);
+	}
+#endif
+
 }