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Posted: **Tue May 14, 2013 19:54**

Localisation Mod

This Mod adds Localisation to Lua Mods and the default Game.
This is only useful when you play in Singleplayer or when you run e.g. a Spanish Minetest Server
Code License: CC-BY-SA 2.0
Mod dependencies: none

Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30267315/Minetest/localisationmod-mt-dropin.zip
How to install:

Drop the contents into your main minetest folder (where the folder builtin is)
Note: You need to overwrite builtin/builtin.lua for this to work

Configuring:
Setting the Language
To set the language open builtin/localisation.lua in an editor and change:
L.lang = "en"
to
L.lang = "<the_language_you_want>"
List of available Translations:

German by sfan5: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30267315/Minetest/translation-de.zip
French by Calinou: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/82342922/minetest/translation-fr.zip
Spanish by kaeza: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/100008207/minetest/translation-es.zip

Installing translations: Just drop the contents of the .zip File into your Minetest folder, also don't forget to set your language

If you want me to add your Translations to the list, they must be a .zip file that looks as follows:
- something.zip
-- games
--- common
---- mods
----- bucket
------ po
------- <language>.po
----- ...
API:
-> string L.get(string)
Returns translated string, if not available returns original string.

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 10:15**

Hi sfan5, we talked yesterday about translation and this mod.

Well, as I told you, I tried it and the po's were generated, but when I left the world and enter again I get a bunch of error messages like this:

ERROR[main]: Syntax Error in /home/fred/projetos/minetest/source/minetest/bin/../games/common/mods/bucket/po/pt_BR.po

for all po files (besides "bucket", I have all others directories under games/common/mods), followed by a message that po file was read and another that no match was found. Each error repeats a number of times. Here are the lines corresponding to doors and bucket:

-snip-
no match found: 'bucket'.'pt_BR'.'Water Bucket'
06:54:01: ERROR[main]: Syntax Error in /home/fred/projetos/minetest/source/minetest/bin/../games/common/mods/bucket/po/pt_BR.po
06:54:01: ERROR[main]: Syntax Error in /home/fred/projetos/minetest/source/minetest/bin/../games/common/mods/bucket/po/pt_BR.po
06:54:01: ERROR[main]: Syntax Error in /home/fred/projetos/minetest/source/minetest/bin/../games/common/mods/bucket/po/pt_BR.po
BR.po for bucket read
no match found: 'bucket'.'pt_BR'.'Lava Bucket'

Initially I thought that was a problem with the language code (pt_BR), because of the "BR.po for bucket read" message (the "pt_" part is missing), so I changed the name to only "pt", but the problem persists.

Another information is that even Minetest is translated to pt_BR (I have "minetest.po" file under po/pt_BR and it was pulled from git) my interface is still in English. It may have anything to do with the localisation problem?

Thanks for any help.

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 11:58**

Could you paste the .po file?

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 13:47**

sfan5 wrote:Could you paste the .po file?

Here goes pt_BR.po from bucket:

#pt_BR Translation for bucket
msgid "Empty Bucket"
msgstr "Empty Bucket"

msgid "Water Bucket"
msgstr "Water Bucket"

msgid "Lava Bucket"
msgstr "Lava Bucket"

I ran msgfmt -v command and it showed me no errors, only an alert for absence of language codification (I add this information to test, but Minetest still show same errors).

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 14:04**

I fixed the problem, redownload the latest version

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 14:36**

German translation added.

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 16:50**

French translation by Calinou added

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 16:59**

Russian translation, but it won`t work =(

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 17:00**

What do you mean by won't work?
Syntax Error messages? Nothing happens?

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 17:04**

Game says "ModError: Failed to load and run ... \builtin.lua"

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 17:05**

Paste the complete error, otherwise I won't be able to fix it

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 17:17**

So, I deleted

Your phone or window isn't wide enough to display the code box. If it's a phone, try rotating it to landscape mode.

Code: Select all: dofile(minetest.get_modpath("__builtin").."/features.lua")

this string from builtin.lua . And now it`s working, but there is problem with encoding.

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 17:21**

Could you make a .zip file for the translation, I can add it to the list then

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 17:45**

Awesome! Very nice mod.

PS: plz change "Dreck" to "Erde" in german translation ;)

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 17:48**

BlockMen wrote:Awesome! Very nice mod.

Thanks!

BlockMen wrote:PS: plz change "Dreck" to "Erde" in german translation ;)

done.

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 18:13**

Everything is ok now sfan5, thank you. And I have just one more question. On localisation.lua there is a comment that L.lang must be 2 characters. So, there is another way to produce a pt_BR translation instead of just pt? Brazilian Portuguese and Portugal Portuguese have many differences between some words translations.

Posted: **Wed May 15, 2013 18:28**

Just use pt, unfortanely I need to set a fixed length

Posted: **Thu May 16, 2013 05:18**

Spanish Translation:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/100008207/minetest/translation-es.zip

Posted: **Thu May 16, 2013 05:25**

Added!

Posted: **Sun May 19, 2013 17:21**

Update!
Changelog:

Support for multiline Strings
Added L.get function

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2013 18:31**

cool mod sfan

Posted: **Mon May 20, 2013 18:51**

German Translation updated to work with new Minetest versions

Posted: **Tue May 21, 2013 14:24**

Update!
Changelog:

Support for language codes like pt_BR (removed language code restriction)

Posted: **Wed May 22, 2013 01:24**

Hi sfan5,

The last update didn't work. When I try to use it, even with "L.lang" as "pt" or "pt_BR", I get the following errors:

22:20:48: ERROR[main]: ========== ERROR FROM LUA ===========
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: Failed to load and run script from
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: /home/fred/projetos/minetest/source/minetest/bin/../games/minetest_game/mods/fire/init.lua:
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: ...test/source/minetest/bin/../builtin/localisation.lua:113: attempt to index local 'b' (a nil value)
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: stack traceback:
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: ...test/source/minetest/bin/../builtin/localisation.lua:113: in function 'create_po_entry'
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: ...test/source/minetest/bin/../builtin/localisation.lua:135: in function 'register_node'
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: ...netest/bin/../games/minetest_game/mods/fire/init.lua:3: in main chunk
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: =======END OF ERROR FROM LUA ========
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: Server: Failed to load and run /home/fred/projetos/minetest/source/minetest/bin/../games/minetest_game/mods/fire/init.lua
22:20:48: ERROR[main]: ModError: Failed to load and run /home/fred/projetos/minetest/source/minetest/bin/../games/minetest_game/mods/fire/init.lua
Could not load texture:
Quit message received.

And it doesn't generate any .po.

Posted: **Wed May 22, 2013 05:33**

Redownload the .zip and try again

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