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Translations Available

Reference: English

Czech | Danish | Dutch | Finnish | French | German | Italian | Polish | Russian | Spanish | Swedish

Translation Method

FreeOrion includes support for multiple languages. As we approach 1.0, translations will become an important part of the project. During the earlier stages it is not so critical, as much of the game content will change.

Anyone interested in adding support for another language can do so with these steps:

  1. In default/ copy the existing eng_stringtable.txt and rename it to represent the language you are translating into. For example: ger_stringtable.txt, esp_stringtable.txt, etc.
  2. Edit this file, and create the translated entries. All translations must be encoded in UTF-8 format. ISO-8859-1 (sometimes called "Latin-1"), Windows-1252, and related encodings will not work.
  3. Select your new stringtable file in the Options menu

That's it!

After making a new translation, please make a new page on the wiki for your translated stringtable (in the manner of the German translation) so it can be incorporated into future FreeOrion releases for others to use, critique and improve.

Posting a stringtable to the FreeOrion wiki or editing a stringtable on the FreeOrion wiki indicates that you release the changes under Creative Commons Attribution - Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licence.

When translating, ideally start with the latest version on SVN of eng_stringtable.txt. The version on SVN is updated by programmers to reflect any changes in code or new strings added, so using that eng_stringtable.txt ensures you're translating the most up-to-date set of strings.

Some languages already have partial translations available. These should be reviewed periodically to ensure they are up-to-date with any changes to the eng_stringtable.txt on SVN. If you update an existing translation, please also update the corresponding page on the wiki by pasting the contents of the updated stringtable file you edited into the existing wiki page, between the <pre> and </pre> tags.

FreeOrion Online Translations

You can use online translator located at http://fo.lukaszk.net. It may be not fully synchronized at this moment with translations in the FreeOrion wiki, but synchronization will be done.