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This page contains documentation to help you localize (translate) the game.
Translating Texts
We are currently using Transifex to translate the game texts. To start translating the game, create an account in Transifex and ask to join a translation team (or create a new one) at https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/0ad/
To test your translations, you must place your PO files in the right l10n folders, such as binaries/data/l10n/ for the engine PO file and binaries/data/mods/public/l10n/ for the PO file of the main mod. Your PO files should follow the naming convention ‘<locale code>.<mod name>.po’ (‘engine’ being the mod name for the engine), but as long as the prefix is ‘<locale code>.’ (e.g. ‘de.’ or ‘en_GB.’), it should work.
See also Implementation of Internationalization and Localization, Localization.
Localizing Images
If you want to replace a certain game image from the GUI with a different image for your locale:
- Locate the image in the sources. Lets say that the image is at
binaries/data/mods/public/images/image.png. - Create the image that you want to load instead.
- Ask that your localized image be put in
binaries/data/mods/public/images/l10n/<locale code>/image.png.
At run time, when the game is using the locale with the locale code specified in the path (such as ‘de’ for German), your image will be loaded instead.
