TITANIC: DE: Fixes for article handling

3 files changed, 19 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_parser.cpp b/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_parser.cpp
index 3481587b8d..f230179f96 100644
--- a/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_parser.cpp
+++ b/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_parser.cpp
@@ -1741,9 +1741,10 @@ void TTparser::preprocessGerman(TTstring &line) {
 		"et ", "st ", "s ", "e ", "n ", "t "
 	};
 
-	for (uint idx = 0; idx < _replacements4.size(); idx += 3) {
-		if (!line.hasSuffix(_replacements4[idx + 2]))
+	for (uint idx = 0; idx < _replacements4.size(); ++idx) {
+		if (!line.hasSuffix(_replacements4[idx]))
 			continue;
+
 		const char *lineP = line.c_str();
 		const char *p = strstr(lineP, _replacements4[idx].c_str());
 		if (!p || p == lineP || *(p - 1) != ' ')
diff --git a/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_sentence.cpp b/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_sentence.cpp
index 2c675ba9e5..1bb30d33d6 100644
--- a/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_sentence.cpp
+++ b/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_sentence.cpp
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include "titanic/true_talk/tt_concept.h"
 #include "titanic/true_talk/script_handler.h"
 #include "titanic/titanic.h"
+#include "titanic/translation.h"
 
 namespace Titanic {
 
@@ -311,6 +312,12 @@ bool TTsentence::isConcept34(int slotIndex, const TTconceptNode *node) const {
 bool TTsentence::localWord(const char *str) const {
 	CScriptHandler &scriptHandler = *g_vm->_exeResources._owner;
 	bool foundMatch = false;
+	static const char *const ARTICLES_EN[11] = {
+		"it", "that", "he", "she", "him", "her", "them", "they", "those", "1", "thing"
+	};
+	static const char *const ARTICLES_DE[9] = {
+		"es", "das", "er", "ihn", "ihm", "ihnen", "diese", "man", "ding"
+	};
 
 	if (scriptHandler._concept1P) {
 		TTstring s = scriptHandler._concept1P->getText();
@@ -332,15 +339,15 @@ bool TTsentence::localWord(const char *str) const {
 			continue;
 
 		const TTstring wordStr = nodeP->_wordP->_text;
-		if (mode == VOCAB_MODE_EN && wordStr == str) {
+		if ((g_language == Common::DE_DEU || mode == VOCAB_MODE_EN) && wordStr == str) {
 			result = true;
 		} else if (nodeP->_wordP->findSynByName(str, &syn, mode)) {
 			result = true;
 		} else if (foundMatch) {
-			result = wordStr == "it" || wordStr == "that" || wordStr == "he"
-				|| wordStr == "she" || wordStr == "him" || wordStr == "her"
-				|| wordStr == "them" || wordStr == "they" || wordStr == "those"
-				|| wordStr == "1" || wordStr == "thing";
+			result = false;
+			for (int idx = 0; idx < TRANSLATE(11, 9) && !result; ++idx) {
+				result = wordStr == TRANSLATE(ARTICLES_EN[idx], ARTICLES_DE[idx]);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
diff --git a/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_sentence.h b/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_sentence.h
index 01a0346be8..dfbf7ae52f 100644
--- a/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_sentence.h
+++ b/engines/titanic/true_talk/tt_sentence.h
@@ -119,6 +119,10 @@ public:
 
 	bool isConcept34(int slotIndex, const TTconceptNode *node = nullptr) const;
 
+	/**
+	 * Returns true if the sentence contains the specified word,
+	 * allowing for common synonyms of the desired word
+	 */
 	bool localWord(const char *str) const;
 
 	/**