Project Overview

Styx  Pseudo Translation command line tool takes Windows DLL/EXE as input and translates string resources included following specific rules. The output of the command line tool is a translated DLL/EXE.

Competition Task Overview

For this challenge, competitors need to make use of resources update APIs to translate string resources in the provided DLL. The translation rules are below:

• Do not modify placeholders and special escape characters

\n                     newline

%1                     FormatMessage placeholder (handle all format strings listed at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms679351(v=vs.85).aspx)

• Replace characters, based on the following table:

a              ��              (U+0250 Latin Small Letter Turned A)

e              ��              (U+0258 Latin Small Letter Reversed E)

i               ��               (U+0268 Latin Small Letter I with stroke)

o              ��              (U+043E Cyrillic Small Letter O)

u              ��              (U+03CB Greek Small Letter Upsilon with diaeresis)

y              ��             (U+03D4 Greek Upsilon with diaeresis and hook Symbol)

t               τ              (U+03C4 Greek Small Letter Tau)

p              ρ              (U+03C1 Greek Small Letter Rho)

• Increase string length, based on original string length:

Up to 10 characters                             300%

11-20 characters                                 200%

21-70 characters                                 180%

Over 71 characters                               140%

• For example, a string that is originally 10 characters long should be increased to 30 characters long
• To increase string length, duplicate existing string as necessary (without duplicating any placeholders or special escape characters)

• Prefix and suffix string with the following characters:

Prefix: ������

Suffix: ������

• List of resource IDs to skip (write out exactly as in input)

The command line tool takes two parameters: input dll file full path, output dll file full path.

 The resource IDs to skip can be configurable in a file

Technology Overview

• C#
• Windows API for updating resources in DLL/EXE
  • http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms648008(v=vs.85).aspx
• Resource editor (freeware) – for examining and verifying resources in DLL/EXE
  • http://www.resedit.net

Final Submission Guidelines

Submission Deliverables

A complete list of deliverables can be viewed in the TopCoder Assembly competition Tutorial at: http://apps.topcoder.com/wiki/display/tc/Assembly+Competition+Tutorials
Below is an overview of the deliverables:

• Source Codes
• Deployment Guide