Many of the messages PHost sends you look a bit bumpy, because they are historically grown and are intended to match Tim's messages bit-by-bit. This is important for programs that do message scanning. Unfortunately, there are many programs that need this, VPA 3.51 being the most popular of them (version 3.61 finally uses util.dat).

That's why PHost 4 introduces a new language file NewEnglish which has most messages revised, typos and ugly grammar fixed, and layout improved a bit. You can select it via the Language config option and the language command. Unlike the original English language, we don't have to maintain compatibility with anything for this file.

Piotr Winiarczyk has contributed a Polish language file.

These changes are also available in PHost 3.4c.

In PHost 4.1 (and 3.5), the language file was converted to a different, easier accessible format. This will allow 3rd-party modifications to the file, and thus simplify new translations.