independent language file

[LovelyA72]

Hi! it's me again. one of my friend is asking me a chinese version of openmpt because his english is not that good and cannot understand some words in openmpt. i am asking to independent the language file is because it can make non-english speaker change openmpt to their own language easier(such as my friend :p ).
Thanks and happy chinese newyear! Xin Nian Kuai Le!

[Saga Musix]

As your friend noticed, it's Not That Simple (TM) and while it is one of the oldest feature requests, it is also one of the least-asked-for, so there is no priority for us to implement it. However,  the long-term development plans for OpenMPT include porting the user interface from MFC to Qt, and Qt has excellent built-in translation facilities which would make translations much easier. With the current MFC code base, it is not viable for us developers to work on this feature.

[LovelyA72]

does it means we can have native Mac version of MPT by using Qt ?

[Saga Musix]

Native Mac and Linux versions are in the realm of possibility after porting to Qt, yes. But please keep in mind that these are (very) long-term plans, and even once the Qt port is done, it is not guaranteed that we can offer pre-compiled Mac versions since none of the OpenMPT developers own Apple hardware. It's possible that these versions would have to be compiled by the user.