[Translation issues] Lines not translatable or broken entries

[Ouaz]

Here's a list of entries which still appear in english when the game is set to another language, either because entries are missing in template.properties (easy to fix) or the game code doesn't allow entries to be translated (harder to fix). There is a screenshot (in french) for each entries under the spoiler tag. Maintainers can edit the message to tick checkboxes when fixed (I think)

---

- Fixed -

• [x] [civName] is able to provide [unitName] once [techName] is researched. (#11397)

Details

- In militaristic City-State screen, this bonus line is not translated, although the related entry is in the translation file

• [x] City (#11397)

Details

- AFAIK, this "unit type" is only used in the "Battering Ram" and "Coastal Raider" civilopedia articles. It should be added in "Map unit filters" as there's a "Non-City = " entry there.

• [x] [Unit] ability (ability)

Details

- In Nation picker screen, and in Civilopedia nation articles, the "stats" of an unit ability is not translated. Example: "+ Strength" For the Mohawk Warrior, "+33% strength" is listed two times, as the ability is activated on Jungle and Forest tiles, but only "when fighting in Jungle tiles" is displayed)

• [x] Lost ability (related to https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/commit/fcd309781df9969831d66c08ed9f41f2046cf8ac#diff-d1d2837aa0e9191070ca9c57ffdd7f2431344a85e7448696ff4ef99c668a3a6bR291)

Details

- The "Lost ability" line in the nation description is partially translated (on this screenshot, "Lost ability" and "Strength"). It was correctly translated before 4.6.17.

• [x] Upgrade all [...] (n gold) (related to https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/pull/9485)

Details

- When upgrading an unit from the Units overview screen. "Upgrade all" and "gold" not translatable/translated.

• [x] Click to choose a file and Overlay opacity (related to https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/pull/9493)

Details

- In the Map Editor options. "Click to choose a file" has been added to the stringtables though, but "Overlay transparency" has been added to template.properties instead of "Overlay opacity".

• [x] These [n] players will be ajusted to [n]-[n] actual players by adding random AI's or by randomly omitting AI's

Details

- When selecting "Random number of Civilizations" option in new game screen, the info message in Civilizations column is not translatable.

• [x] CropYield

Details

- In the new "Charts" screen, one of the entry in the drop list is "CropYield" instead of "Crop Yield", therefore it is not translated.

• [x] Screen orientation (part of #8822 )

Details

- "Screen orientation" is not translatable (Android only obviously). I think adding it to template.properties won't do the trick, but I'm not sure. I could test, but on Android, it requires to create a dummy mod to test an alternate translation file. And I'm lazy. ^^

• [x] Sell [value] (partial fix with #8297 )

Details

- The "Sell" button is now translated but the gold value is in square brackets ^^

• [x] Sell (related to https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/pull/8167/files#r1051648654 )

Details

- The "Sell" button is not translated when selecting a building in the new city screen UI

• [x] Tiny ; Small ; Medium ; Large ; Huge (related to https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/commit/454f99994824f72cea2d4ec84865dddb52ad54a8 )

Details

- The new screen size option lines are not translatable. Adding them to the translation file does not fix it.

• [x] Great Engineer / Great Scientist / Great Artist / Great Merchant (related to https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/pull/8180 )

Details

- In city screen, in the new Great People submenu, names are not translated

• [x] Production / Food / Gold / Science / Culture / Happiness / Faith (related to https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/pull/8180 )

Details

- In city screen, in the new Stats panel, column names are not translated

• [x] Base stats ("Base values" should be used, as it is alrealdy in template.properties) (related to https://github.com/yairm210/Unciv/pull/8180 )

Details

- In city screen, in the new Stats panel, Base stats is not translated. "Base values" is already in template .properties, but I don't know if I can change the code without breaking something.

• [x] Politics ; Show global politics ; Show diagram ; At war with [enemy] ; Friends with [civName] ; [numberOfTurns] Turns Left ; Denounced [otherCiv] ; Allied with [civName] ; + Policy category names (Honor, Liberty, etc).

Details

- Most of the new strings in the Politics screen are not translated. "Politics" (for the main button) is missing in template.properties, I think. Besides new strings, Policy names in the table are not translated. The header row, which has two new strings ("Civilization info" and "Relations"), is correctly translated.

• [x] Air Sweep

Details

- "Air Sweep" button is not translatable in the unit action list and in the battle table.

• [x] Non-existent city

Details

- When a city is a part of an ongoing trade deal, and the same city is destroyed in the meantime, the city name becomes "Non-existent city" in the trade overview screen, and is not translated. The string does not exist in the translation file.

• [x] Invalid input! Please enter a valid number.

Details

- In Trade screen, when entering no values for gold trade, the alert is not translated. A slightly different string exists in the translation file "Invalid input! Please enter a different string."

• [x] Requires:

Details

- In Promotions screen, when choosing a promotion for an unit, "Requires:" is not translated in the description panel.

• [x] Trade request

Details

- After proposing a trade offer including a luxury resource to a civ, the line "Trade request" is not translated in the Resources overview screen.

• [x] Speeds

Details

- The new civilopedia category name, "Speeds", is not translated. There's a new "Game Speeds" entry in the translation file though (#6856), which seems unused in-game.

• [x] Start year:

Details

- Last line in a Civilopedia "Speeds" article.

• [x] Add all [param] in capital

Details

- In "Our status" screen. This has been already fixed in the past. Broken again. :D

• [x] Complete [amount] Policy branches

Details

- Still in "Our status" screen.

• [x] Remove [feature] first
• [x] Research [tech] first
• [x] Have this tile inside your empire

Details

- When picking an improvement to build with a worker. I think all the requirement infos are not translated anymore (they were before). Below a screenshot with some of them:

• [x] Consumes n [resource] (n available) Back from the dead! Fixed a first time in #6705

Details

- In the City screen, when choosing an unit to build, in the lower-right info panel. The string already exists in the translation file.

• [x] May buy [baseUnitFilter] units with [stat] for [amount] times their normal Production cost

Details

- In the Holy Warriors belief article, one of the keys is not translated (stat=Faith), as the sentence itself. String is in the translation file. I think there was no problem before.

• [x] Enter search text

Details

- In the Mods menu, in Sort and Filter text area, the hint text is not translatable.

• [x] Friends list

Details

- In "Multiplayer" game menu, the new "Friends list" button is not translated. It is in the stringtables though.

• [x] [saveFileName] deleted successfully.

Details

- In "Load" game menu, when deleting a save, the "success" line is not translated. It is in the stringtables though.

• [x] Please input player ID

Details

- In "New Game" menu, when creating a new multiplayer game. I noticed it a long time ago, but never reported it, as it was very minor. The string is not in the translation file.

• [x] Wait

Details

- The new "Wait" command in unit action list, is not translatable.

• [x] Consumes 1 [resource]

Details

- In the City screen, when choosing an unit to build, in the lower-right info panel. The string already exists in the translation file, and there was no problem in previous versions.

• [x] Max zoom out

Details

- In the advanced options menu

• [x] Followers of this religion (tied to 7af2748)

Details

- In Religion screen, the new line that counts the total number of followers for a religion, is not translated. "Followers of this Religion" exists in the stringtables, but "religion" is not capitalized in the new string code.

• [x] Go to on map (despite 42865bd)

Details

- New button in the city-state diplomacy screen still not translated

• [x] Add all [param] in the capital ([param] = spaceship parts)

Details

- In victory conditions screen, "spaceship parts" is not translated

• [x] Revoke protection for

Details

- In city-state diplomacy screen, when clicking "Revoke protection" button (which is translated), the popup is not translated
Button correctly translated :

Popup not translated :

• [x] Upgrade (old one apparently, that I didn't notice yet)

Details

- Column title not translatable in Overview - Units screen

• [x] Hurry Construction (+[productionAmount])

Details

- When a Great Engineer is inside a city and can hurry the current construction, the button is not translated. The line is yet in the translation file. (outside the city -so unavailable button-, the button is translated)
Inside the city - not translated

Outside the city - translated

• [x] [CityState] gave us a [GreatPerson] as a gift!

Details

- Notification not translated when Allied City-States occasionally gift Great People

• [x] City-State Luxuries

Details

- In statistics screen, when city-state luxuries as gifts give a 50% happiness bonus

• [x] The possible rewards are:

Details

- In Ancient Ruins article in civilopedia

• [x] Followers

Details

- In city screen, when expanding religion tab

• [x] Great Person

Details

- In Sweden article in civilopedia, Nobel Prize special. "Gain [amount] Influence with a [baseUnitFilter] gift to a City-State".

• [x] Remove Foreign religions from your own cities

Details

- In Inquisitor article in civilopedia

• [x] Type and "When friends" ; "When allies"

Details

- In city-state article in civilopedia

• [x] Protected by: [Civ name]

Details

- In city-state diplomacy screen, names of the civs protecting a city-state are not translated. In this example, The Huns and Ethiopia.

• [x] Enemy Land

Details

- In Just War belief article in civilopedia

• [x] Followers of this Religion

Details

- In some belief descriptions (Asceticism, Choral Music, Liturgical Drama, Religious Center) using the new string (in cities with at least [amount] [populationFilter])

• [x] unimproved

Details

- In Celts article in civilopedia, Druidic Lore special

• [x] Requires more population (broken again, was fixed a few release ago)

Details

- In construction list, in city screen

• [x] Requires a specific building in all cities!

Details

- In construction queue

• [x] Consumes resources which you are lacking

Details

- In construction queue

• [x] Requires a specific building in this city!

Details

- In construction queue

• [x] You have won a [type] victory!

Details

- When winning a game, in Global status screen, the line saying which type of victory has been achieved, is not translated (only the type actually, not the full sentence). There's some corresponding lines in the translation file, but without the [type] key.

• [x] National ability

Details

- National ability combat bonus in battle table

• [x] Unit ability

Details

- Unit ability combat bonus in battle table. Like "National ability", this line exists in the translation file.

• [x] Never appears as a Barbarian unit (the return)

Details

- Follows 7887e7a . "Never appears as a Barbarian unit" has been removed from tech descriptions, but still appears when selecting a unit to build (like the Knight) in the city construction screen

• [x] "Pantheon" ; "Founder" ; "Follower" ; "Enhancer"

Details

- For belief type, in any belief article in civilopedia

• [x] Great Admiral

Details

- In Naval Tradition policy in civilopedia

• [x] in [Bananas] tiles

Details

- When choosing a Plantation as tile improvement, description has some part untranslated and unformatted. Follows the fix for "null" in Plantation (b8d8e11) . Note: this line is displayed correctly in Plantation civilopedia article.

• [x] units (my bad!)

Details

- In Free Speech policy article in civilopedia

• [x] Notified of new Barbarian encampments

Details

- In Honor policy article in civilopedia

• [x] from every

Details

- When founding a Pantheon and choosing a belief, Goddess of Festivals. The corresponding entries is yet correctly translated in civilopedia

• [x] for

Details

- In any civilopedia article. Exists in translation file ("for = pour" in french), but it is not in template.properties

• [x] "null" in Plantation

Details

- When choosing a Plantation as tile improvement, description has "null". Note: this line is missing in Plantation civilopedia article.

• [x] Religious

Details

- In city-state screen, when type is "religious"

• [x] Requires

Details

- In any policy article in civilopedia

• [x] Never appears as a Barbarian unit

Details

- In any tech article in civilopedia, with a non-barbarian unit

• [x] when fighting in [tileFilter] tiles

Details

- In battle table. Exists in translation files, [tileFilter] is translated, but not "when fighting in [...] tiles"

• [x] Policy

Details

- In battle table

• [x] Resources

Details

- In city-state screen

• [x] Amphitheatre

Details

- This one happens both in english and french in Liturgical Drama belief article in civilopedia. [param] entry is not translatable.

• [x] all healing effects doubled - This is not a problem in the base game, and instead results from misspelling in a mod, the A should be capitalized

Details

- Fountain of Youth article in civilopedia. [comment] entry is not translatable.

• [x] Choose a religion

Details

- Button "Choose a religion" when founding a religion

• [x] Religion names are not translated when founding a religion, although being in the translation file.

Details

- All religions names - Buddhism, Islam, etc. - not translated in "Found a religion" screen

• [x] Enhance Religion

Details

- Button "Enhance religion" in the main UI on the map

• [x] null for Wheat
• In Farm article in civilopedia, bonus for Farm builded on wheat, appears as "null". Happens both in english and french.

Details

• [x] various bonus/penalties entries in battle table

Details

- In battle table

• [x] building/policy/tech names (as bonus) in expanded stats drilldown

Details

- In a city screen, when expanding the stats drilldown

Reported by @saud2410

• [x] - fixed by 43e0fa2 - All "See also" entries in tech screen (details)
• [x] Type (details)

---

- Fixed - Finally, all Policy name (Honor, Liberty, Piety, etc.) translations have been removed in 3.19.2. I think it is intended, and the translation entries will come back in a future release, according the guidelines. EDIT: Strings are back in 4.0.1.

---

The list is complete, I hope it won't be too boring to fix. :p

[saud2410]

All "See also" entries in tech screen (There's no problem in civilopedia)

• Civil Service

Details

• Compass

Details

• Economics

Details

• Chemistry

Details

• Fertilizer

Details

• Scientific Theory

Details

• Atomic Theory

Details

[yairm210]

I think the 'see also' should be removed entirely since it says what effect it has

[saud2410]

Type

Details

3.19.6 on Android 11, apk In civilopedia, Type: is not translated.

It's translated in diplomatic screen.

[saud2410]

• [ ] Great Person

Details

It can be found in civilopedia and new game screen. (3.19.8, apk on Android 11)

[yairm210]

• [ ] Great Person

Details It can be found in civilopedia and new game screen. (3.19.8, apk on Android 11)

That was already in the original post

[saud2410]

Sorry i remember that i checked but i didn't delete it from my list

[saud2410]

Archery (please read details)

Details

3.19.8, apk on Android 11

Bottom line is translation of "Archery", 궁술. Yes, we have Archery translation cuz it's ancient tech. And here "Archery" as an unit type seems to refer "ranged cold weapon". However, 궁술 means only "Skills of archery" in Korean. 궁술 doesn't indicate any weaponry or soldiers. Please consider making new name of ranged-cold weapon unit type. I've considered am i okay to ask something related only in my language in here. But i can't get answer for myself so i just comment this.

[yairm210]

Then just use what you would use for "archery units" as the tech name

[Ouaz]

@saud2410

Yes, there's several english entries that are used in a different context (in your example, a tech name used as a unit type for promotion), which makes sense in english, but not so much in other languages. We have to be inventive to keep the "same" meaning everywhere in our native language. :sweat_smile:

For example, in french, "gunpowder" (tech) is translated "poudre à canon" (literally "cannonpowder") as we don't have another word for it. So, it looks a bit weird as a unit type in promotion, and I can't change it, because it is the tech name.

So, I did a little trick by translating "Ranged Gunpowder" (untranslatable in french anyway, because we only have "poudre à canon") by "poudre d'artillerie" (literally "artillery powder"), so player should understand that one means "gunpowder melee combat" and the other "gunpowder ranged combat".

It's not perfect (french people don't really say "poudre d'artillerie"), but I think it's the most acceptable workaround.

@yairm210

Thanks for the already done fixes!

[saud2410]

@yairm210 I've never expected "willing yes" or smth, but what you say isn't gonna work. It's already Civ5 official translation, and player sees tech more than unit type. Tho i don't know how-to, I'll understand it as "if you want, do it yourself".

But let me ask you something. Does "ranged cold weapon" type exists in Civ5? How does it used?

@Ouaz Thanks for your words, but you never know how much i'm already trying to be "imaginative". Expression always matters. Maybe more than expression. But Koreans have additional characteristics like postpositions. I can't explain how does it feels to other language spreakers, but if you look Korean.properties there's so many ( ) things, and most of them are unnecessary. I always do try to keep in mind "It's already lucky that i can translate it". But if the system seems different from Civ5, imao i have to say "could you-".

[Ouaz]

but if you look Korean.properties there's so many ( ) things

Haha, me too! For example, english doesn't have gender for words, but french does. So An enemy [unit] must be translated Un(e) [unit] ennemi(e), because in french, [unit] name can be a masculine or feminine word, so the determiner and adjective have to be adapted accordingly.

What I want to say by "imaginative" is that sometimes we are stuck with translation, because english language has a different (and a lot easier imo) grammar and lexical field, that makes things not convenient to translate (especially in videogames, moreover in 4X games).

We have to deal with it, and find the most acceptable way to translate some parts of the game, even if it gives sometimes a not-so-good result in our native language, but making it still easily understable by the player.

And I think what Yairm said was truly a suggestion, not something to be understood as "if you want it, do it yourself". :smile:

[Ouaz]

3.19.9

---

- FIXED - type and "when friends", "when allies" (in civilopedia nation articles) - FIXED - units (in Free Speech policy) (my bad!) - FIXED - for (in civilopedia improvements article) - FIXED - Not related to translation, but ressources icons in civilopedia improvement articles are now missing:

details

[Ouaz]

3 new strings not translated added. For screenshots, see the top of the list in the opening post:

---

• FIXED - [citySate] gave us a [unitName] as a gift! Notification not translated when Allied City-States occasionally gift Great People

• FIXED - City-State Luxuries In statistics screen, when city-state luxuries as gifts give a 50% happiness bonus

• FIXED - null in Plantation When choosing a Plantation as tile improvement, description has "null". Note: this line is missing in Plantation civilopedia article.

[yairm210]

Can you add a screenshot for the "null in plantation"?

[yairm210]

Sorry, now saw your earlier post :)

[Ouaz]

Following b8d8e11 that fixed "null" in Plantation, it seems it causes another translation problem in the same string :sweat_smile: :

- FIXED - in [Bananas] tiles

Details

- When choosing a Plantation as tile improvement, description has some part untranslated and unformatted. Follows the fix for "null" in Plantation (b8d8e11) . Note: this line is displayed correctly in Plantation civilopedia article.

(added to opening post)

Note: the line for Plantation bonus: +1 Gold for Cotton, Dyes, Incense, Silk, Spices, Wine, Sugar, Citrus has disappeared both in Civilopedia and improvement tile building screen, but I think this is intended.

[yairm210]

'units cost no maintenance' looks like a you problem:

[amount] units cost no maintenance = [amount] units ne coûtent aucune maintenance

[Ouaz]

'units cost no maintenance' looks like a you problem

Oh my god, how could have I miss that. I'm so sorry! Shame on me. :sweat:

[Ouaz]

3.19.10 New batch:

---

- FIXED - Hurry Construction (+[productionAmount])

Details

- When a Great Engineer is inside a city and can hurry the current construction, the button is not translated. The line is yet in the translation file. (outside the city -so unavailable button-, the button is translated)
Inside the city - not translated

Outside the city - translated

- FIXED - National ability

Details

- National ability combat bonus in battle table. This line exits in the translation file though.

- FIXED - Unit ability

Details

- Unit ability combat bonus in battle table. Like "National ability", this line exists in the translation file.

- FIXED - Never appears as a Barbarian unit (the return)

Details

- Follows 7887e7a . "Never appears as a Barbarian unit" has been removed from tech descriptions, but still appears when selecting a unit to build (like the Knight) in the city construction screen

[Ouaz]

3.19.12

---

- FIXED - Protected by: [Civ name]

Details

- In city-state diplomacy screen, names of the civs protecting a city-state are not translated. In this example, The Huns and Ethiopia.

- FIXED - You have won a [type] victory!

Details

- When winning a game, in Global status screen, the line saying which type of victory has been achieved, is not translated (only the type actually, not the full sentence). There's some corresponding lines in the translation file, but without the [type] key.

[Ouaz]

3.19.17

The newly introduced strings in construction queue, are not translatable.

- FIXED - Requires a specific building in all cities!

Details

- In construction queue

- FIXED - Consumes resources which you are lacking

Details

- In construction queue

- FIXED - Requires a specific building in this city!

Details

- In construction queue

- FIXED - Requires more population (broken again, was fixed a few releases ago)

Details

- In construction list, in city screen

[Ouaz]

4.0.0

---

-FIXED- Upgrade (old one apparently, that I didn't notice yet)

Details

- Column title not translatable in Overview - Units screen

-FIXED- Followers of this Religion

Details

- In some belief descriptions (Asceticism, Choral Music, Liturgical Drama, Religious Center) using the new string (in cities with at least [amount] [populationFilter])

[SomeTroglodyte]

Finally, all Policy name (Honor, Liberty, Piety, etc.) translations have been removed

I can clarify: The TranslationFileWriter has the ability to look up one level in the Class hierarchy, and we introduced another level with RulesetObject. This is why neither name nor uniques from PolicyBranches are scanned... Fix in testing.

[SomeTroglodyte]

I'm ticking off directly in the first post stuff I've got fixed - in #6421, #6433 or in the branch I'm working on.

[SomeTroglodyte]

@yairm210 "Remove Foreign religions from your own cities" - case is inconsistent IMHO. Change to "Remove foreign religions from your own cities" or "Remove foreign Religions from your own cities" as soon as possible??? Only in the Unique, not the const val removeHeresyAbilityCount because changing the latter would give a few gamers free uses in existing saves?

[Ouaz]

4.03

This one was translated before... I can't say when it has been broken.

-FIXED- Revoke protection for

Details

- In city-state diplomacy screen, when clicking "Revoke protection" button (which is translated), the popup is not translated
Button correctly translated :

Popup not translated :

[SomeTroglodyte]

Revoke protection for

True, that needs a Revoke protection for [cityStateName]? = in template.properties. Go ahead.

[yairm210]

So we finally finished this. Great work everyone :)

[Ouaz]

@yairm210 (sorry, I ping you because I don't know if you will receive a notification, as the issue is now closed)

So we finally finished this. Great work everyone :)

"You spoke too fast, young man". :D

4.0.7

The new "Go To on Map" button in the city-state diplomacy screen, is not translatable:

- FIXED - Go To on Map

Details

- New button in the city-state diplomacy screen

[Ouaz]

4.09

Hello, unfortunately, some fixes didn't work and there's a new one too:

- FIXED - Go to on map (despite 42865bd)

Details

- New button in the city-state diplomacy screen still not translated

- FIXED - Add all [param] in the capital ([param] = spaceship parts)

Details

- In victory conditions screen, "spaceship parts" is not translated