I asked a question in the BigWigs discord, but though I should ask here too. Is there a way to translate the Chinese into English. It seems that the chinese over rides the English when it is announced by someone (in any language BUT English).
Do you mean the romanization or translating of Chinese? Romanization would be possible but make the addon way bigger and complicated. While translation would be almost impossibly difficult 魔兽世界 → Móshòu Shìjiè (romanization) 魔兽世界 → World of Warcraft (translation)
What i Mean is, normally I see the ENGLISH announcements with Big Wigs, but when I am in a group with people who use Chinese as their main language (often people from Illidan) I just see Chinese Characters. I would like is to have the add-on to show English.
It can't be that difficult to translate this stuff. It's all just text strings which are being generated by the add on itself. If you're making the add on, the add on knows what it's announcing from a Chinese Player to tell everyone in the raid that they have "debuff x". It doesn't help anyone to who doesn't speak Chinese to see that announcement in Chinese characters. The add-on should be able to identify the string of Chinese characters that announces "debuff x" and show it to me in English so I can actually understand what's going on.
Either that, or if BlockChinese would actually just hide all Chinese characters properly that would be great. I don't understand why Blizzard thinks it's okay to put people into groups who can't event talk to each other in the same language. It's so annoying!
I am very grateful for this addon, my server (Frostmourne-Oceanic/US) started to fill up slowly with the Asian text and I have gotten the addon to block and worked well :D Wish more people would get it so that they won't complain in trade chat all the time about the wall of spam from the Asian text. The only issue some may get are items being linked in the Asian text with English in the same sentence, which is fine by me.
Dead ?
Sad to see it hasn't gotten an update for 8.1.x
I realize I could just tick load out of date & will but.. yeah the question stands.. is this not getting updated any longer ?
In reply to Jaladhjin:
Updated, enjoy =)
In reply to Ketho:
Thanks so very much ^_^
can you make it to block all chinese players.
i was disappointed when i read the real effect. name is misleading.
In reply to nshawmc2:
any chance we get a version update? (even if it still works)
In reply to shhfiftyfive:
I asked a question in the BigWigs discord, but though I should ask here too. Is there a way to translate the Chinese into English. It seems that the chinese over rides the English when it is announced by someone (in any language BUT English).
魔兽世界 → Móshòu Shìjiè (romanization)
魔兽世界 → World of Warcraft (translation)
I'm not sure I understand this part
In reply to Ketho:
In reply to Lilykoi:
That's possible, you can easily edit BlockChinese.lua with Notepad++ or VS Code
BlockChinese never blocked Chinese chat in instance/raid groups afaik
I am very grateful for this addon, my server (Frostmourne-Oceanic/US) started to fill up slowly with the Asian text and I have gotten the addon to block and worked well :D Wish more people would get it so that they won't complain in trade chat all the time about the wall of spam from the Asian text. The only issue some may get are items being linked in the Asian text with English in the same sentence, which is fine by me.
In reply to Goldzy:
Is there a way to block Chinese and Japanese without blocking Korean?
I tried changing the LUA:
local function filter(self, event, msg)
if strfind(msg, "[\227-\233]") then
but that doesn't work.
But that should work, "[\227-\233]" is indeed only for Chinese and Japanese UTF-8. I just tested this and Korean showed up for me
Hmmm... It seems to work and sometimes not. And I've noticed that some chinese do get through.
Thanks for the help though!
Can you update this for Russian characters as well? Most EU servers are plagued by them
Someone made an addon for that, too
https://mods.curse.com/addons/wow/256746-blockrussian
Amazing. Thanks for the quick response.
I could kiss you for making this, but I promise I won't. Thank you for the addon.