Remove the length limit on string literals in localised strings

[IsaacOscar]

Bassically, for some reason if you try and do prototype.localised_name = {"some.key", str}, the length of 'str' is limited to 200 characters.
For example, you could get this error:

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Localised string key is too large: 201 > 200 (limit). in property tree at ROOT.recipe.basic-oil-processing.localised_name[2]

I understand having this limit for localised keys, but programmatically generating text with more than 200 characters seems reasonable. Especially as there is no such limit in the values in the locale file, e.g.

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[some]
key=... really long string ...

But mods can't generate locale files!

I have found a workaround to the above problem by nesting {"", ...} locale keys, but it's not simple, as there's a limit of 19 paramater's to the "".

Complicated Code

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local function locat_fill(depth, pos)
	if depth == 0 then
		pos.i = pos.i + 200
		return pos.str:sub(pos.i - 200, pos.i - 1)
	else
		local result = {""}
		while #result <= 20 and pos.i <= pos.n do
			table.insert(result, locat_fill(depth - 1, pos)) end
		return result end end

function locat(str)
	local pos = {i=1, n = str:len(), str=str}
	local depth = 0
	local result = locat_fill(depth, pos)
	while pos.i <= pos.n do
		result = {"", result}
		while #result <= 20 and pos.i <= pos.n  do
			table.insert(result, locat_fill(depth, pos)) end
		depth = depth + 1 end
	return result end

Then you can just do:

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prototype.localised_name = {"some.key", locat(str)}

(Note there is a limit of about 20 to the recursion depth of the {'"}, but using the above locat function it is impossible to reach, as you'd need a string of length 19^20^20 × 200 ≈ 7 octillion. But that's a 93 bit number, so you can't even theoretically have a string that big.)

[curiosity]

That's weird, since there is no such restriction at runtime.

But I guess you shouldn't be dealing in unlocalized strings right there, that defeats the point of localization.

[IsaacOscar]

That's weird, since there is no such restriction at runtime.

Your right, game.print{"", ("x"):rep(300)} works.

But I guess you shouldn't be dealing in unlocalized strings right there, that defeats the point of localization.

In my case, the strings where actually just [ img=... ] things, so they don't need to be translated.