I've recently discovered that (as expected) SC will attemp to load the chk file whose language ID matches the one of the installation; if not found it'll attempt to open the one with ID 0. This could allow people to load different maps for different languages. This could be specially useful when translating maps. That way you could have your map display spanish strings when loaded into a spanish SC and display english strings when loaded into another language SC.

Yeah, but imagine remaking every trigger in your map that uses a text display for each language

Use a string editor
Even TBLPad would work. Also you can use a PROEdit-like string editor which lets you filter only the display text strings.

Oh! I misread what you said, I thought you could detect in-game what language they were using, this is much better Of course, it would require multiple CHKs, which would make your map a bit bigger, but it's still pretty cool, although, how could you make the triggers use it? Just have all the strings that match have the matching ID?

SC would load a different chk for each language. Since they match in everything but the string text it shouldn't disconnect the players. It'd be like loading two different maps on different computers and playing together.

In fact you cannot detect the language. That'd disconnect the players.

Very clever. I'd love to see this idea get used. Instead of downloading different versions, you can just get one that has all.

I've actually wondered about this before when I was playing with BinEdit2. Did you try it? Does it actually work?

Yeah it does that's why I posted this. However you cannot load any other .bin file from a scm because the scm file is pushed on the back of the mpq cue.
If you add a chk file into patch_rt.mpq it'll always load that one instead

I know you can't load bin files from maps.. I just remember thinking about it when I was looking at the different languages.
You CAN load them from maps with SCMLoader.

But why do this when they could learn English.