Sorry for the delay in response. The update that i downloaded was the Win/Linux Mega link update on the first page.
Ok, that's the basic game version. Becasue I don't see anything with "Update" in the link title. I thought you were talking about the bugfix (which you should also install, since it fixes a few script errors).
Could the issue perhaps have been caused by my habit of overwriting files onto the old installation? I usuallly extract new updates and then copy into the old file and overwrite when prompted. Even doing that though I can't see how one half of a file could end up translated and the dialogue options be translated.
Yes, that can be a problem because of the order in which files are looked up.
Let's say, the game looks for a file named hello.txt
First it looks for files that actually have that name.
If it can't find any, it looks into the .rpa archive files to see if such a entry is there.
If now two .rpa files contain such a entry, then you can't predict which one will be used (I GUESS it looks in a alphabetical order, but that's just a guess).
I'll do a clean full install of the new update and see what happens too. Thanks though for the response and the link to your translation.
Edit: Well i can confirm that a clean install has fixed it. How wierd is it that it only affected the dialogue and not the choices though?
Actually it's not really weird. Because of the behaviour I mentioned above, the game found an outdated translations file.
Of couse I don't know exactly in what order the translations were made, but I think we can safely assume that menus and simple texts were translated earlier, before the dialogues. Also, blackpanther at some point posted an updated translation file which contains the texts for more languages, which means that at the time of the release not all translations for all languages were made.
Now the engine displays the default text for anything it can't find in the translation file.
Always do a clean install and only copy the savegames (and - if you use it - the lovetime patch). Also don't forget to install bugfixes (in this case 0.7.p1.03), that avoids questions like "I can't proceed on the take care or your ass quest"