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Zonkmachine: Add forum translation/language link

2026-07-14T18:37:51Z

Add forum translation/language link

Zonkmachine: /* For translators */ english -> English

2026-07-14T16:25:09Z

‎For translators: english -> English

Impaktor at 13:51, 21 November 2025

2025-11-21T13:51:39Z

Micha: Fix broken links and minor grammar/spelling fixes.

2025-06-15T06:38:28Z

Fix broken links and minor grammar/spelling fixes.

Zonkmachine: /* For translators */

2025-04-07T14:47:21Z

‎For translators

Impaktor at 17:13, 30 June 2024

2024-06-30T17:13:18Z

Zonkmachine: Fix dead link. string.gif -> string.png

2023-01-02T01:13:06Z

Fix dead link. string.gif -> string.png

Zonkmachine: fix dead link

2023-01-02T00:58:37Z

fix dead link

Impaktor: /* For translators */

2022-11-26T15:32:30Z

‎For translators

Impaktor: Update with transifex link that explicitly says it's free & open source

2021-05-27T14:19:09Z

Update with transifex link that explicitly says it's free & open source

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 All text in Pioneer is translatable, and the game ships with several translations. Here's everything you need to know.
 == For translators ==
-All our translations are managed through [http://transifex.com Transifex], a free web-based translation service. To start writing translations, sign up there, using [https://app.transifex.com/signup/open-source/ this link], and then take a look at the [https://app.transifex.com/pioneer/pioneer/dashboard/ Pioneer project]. You can either use the web-interface, or download the full file, and edit off line, and then re-upload.
+You can either use the Transifex web-interface, or download the full file, edit off line, and then re-upload.
 Changes to translations are automatically pulled into the master git repo, from Transifex, twice per day, and from there to the builds when they're next run.

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 If you want to translate Pioneer to an entirely new language, please [https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues open an issue] on the tracker and someone will create the translation for you.
-English is the canonical language for Pioneer. As such, you can't directly modify the english strings through Transifex. If you want to change those, you'll need to make the change in the source code hosted on GitHub and submit a pull request like for a normal code change. However, do note that changes to the english text will trigger re-translation of that string in all other languages, thus there should be a good motivation why a string is changed (e.g. spelling/grammar).
+English is the canonical language for Pioneer. As such, you can't directly modify the English strings through Transifex. If you want to change those, you'll need to make the change in the source code hosted on GitHub and submit a pull request like for a normal code change. However, do note that changes to the English text will trigger re-translation of that string in all other languages, thus there should be a good motivation why a string is changed (e.g. spelling/grammar).
 Untranslated strings will use the value from the English version.

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	The <tt>core</tt> resource is magical. If you add a string to it, you also need to add it to <tt>LangStrings.inc.h</tt> and recompile. It will then be available as <tt>Lang::SOME_TRANSLATED_STRING</tt>.		The <tt>core</tt> resource is magical. If you add a string to it, you also need to add it to <tt>LangStrings.inc.h</tt> and recompile. It will then be available as <tt>Lang::SOME_TRANSLATED_STRING</tt>.
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		+	== For admin ==
		+
		+	Notes to self when adding new module to translate
		+	* Add module to .tx/config
		+	* Manually in transifex
		+	** Upload en.json & rename module to be consistent with existing ones.
		+	** Go to "resources" -> "auto-update resources", add link with github raw json file
		+	* (If we can't wait until pioneer server box's cron job, ssh to it and run script manually

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 == For translators ==
-All our translations are managed through [http://transifex.com Transifex], a free web-based translation service. To start writing translations, sign up there, using [https://www.transifex.com/signup/open-source/?join_project=pioneer this link], and then take a look at the [https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/pioneer/ Pioneer project]. You can either use the web-interface, or download the full file, and edit off line, and then re-upload.
+All our translations are managed through [http://transifex.com Transifex], a free web-based translation service. To start writing translations, sign up there, using [https://app.transifex.com/signup/open-source/ this link], and then take a look at the [https://app.transifex.com/pioneer/pioneer/dashboard/ Pioneer project]. You can either use the web-interface, or download the full file, and edit off line, and then re-upload.
-Changes to translations are automatically pulled into the master git repo, from transifex, twice per day, and from there to the builds when they're next run.
+Changes to translations are automatically pulled into the master git repo, from Transifex, twice per day, and from there to the builds when they're next run.
 In Transifex you can subscribe to notifications for the languages or resources you're interested in. When new strings are added or modified, you'll be notified.
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 If you want to translate Pioneer to an entirely new language, please [https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues open an issue] on the tracker and someone will create the translation for you.
-English is the canonical language for Pioneer. As such, you can't directly modify the english strings through Transifex. If you want to change those, you'll need to make the change in the source code hosted on GitHub and submit a pull request like for a normal code change. However, do note that changes in english text will trigger re-translation of that string in all other languages, thus there should be a good motivation why a string is changes (e.g. spelling/grammar).
+English is the canonical language for Pioneer. As such, you can't directly modify the english strings through Transifex. If you want to change those, you'll need to make the change in the source code hosted on GitHub and submit a pull request like for a normal code change. However, do note that changes to the english text will trigger re-translation of that string in all other languages, thus there should be a good motivation why a string is changed (e.g. spelling/grammar).
 Untranslated strings will use the value from the English version.
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 If you're a new translator and you'd like your name included in AUTHORS.txt, please let us know!
-For when you translate: Text within curly brace denote a varialbe name that will be substituted and should not be translated, e.g.
+For when you translate: Text within curly brace denote a variable name that will be substituted and should not be translated, e.g.
      "Welcome to {system}"

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 If you want to translate Pioneer to an entirely new language, please [https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues open an issue] on the tracker and someone will create the translation for you.
-English is the canonical language for Pioneer. As such, you can't directly modify the english strings through Transifex. If you want to change those, you'll need to make the change in source code hosted in git and submit a pull request like for a normal code change. However, do note that changes in english text will trigger re-translation of that string in all other languages, thus there should be a good motivation why a string is changes (e.g. spelling/grammar).
+English is the canonical language for Pioneer. As such, you can't directly modify the english strings through Transifex. If you want to change those, you'll need to make the change in the source code hosted on GitHub and submit a pull request like for a normal code change. However, do note that changes in english text will trigger re-translation of that string in all other languages, thus there should be a good motivation why a string is changes (e.g. spelling/grammar).
 Untranslated strings will use the value from the English version.
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      "Welcome to {system}"
 == For mod developers ==

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 While its possible to load multiple translation resources to share strings, its highly recommended that you don't do that. Stick to your own strings so that you don't have to track changes in other modules. Duplicates across resources are fine. Note that code that uses multiple resources won't be accepted into the main Pioneer repository unless you've checked it with a core developer first and it has a good reason.
-Translations are [https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/i18n.html <tt>chrome.i18n</tt> JSON] files. The format is fairly simple - a JSON object with tokens as keys and values of an object with two keys, <tt>message</tt> and <tt>description</tt>. <tt>message</tt> is the text that will appear in the game, while <tt>description</tt> provides instructions for the translator that will be displayed in Transifex. [http://json.org/string.gif Here] is a useful chart showing how characters are interpreted.
+Translations are [https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/i18n.html <tt>chrome.i18n</tt> JSON] files. The format is fairly simple - a JSON object with tokens as keys and values of an object with two keys, <tt>message</tt> and <tt>description</tt>. <tt>message</tt> is the text that will appear in the game, while <tt>description</tt> provides instructions for the translator that will be displayed in Transifex. [https://www.json.org/img/string.png Here] is a useful chart showing how characters are interpreted.
 If you're submitting code that requires a new language you should only include <tt>en.json</tt>. Please tag '''@impaktor''' in your pull request so they can create a new resource in Transifex and make sure a language update is done at merge. If you don't do this then you'll break the game for non-English users.

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 In Transifex you can subscribe to notifications for the languages or resources you're interested in. When new strings are added or modified, you'll be told about it.
-If you want to translate Pioneer to an entirely new language, please [https://pioneerspacesim.net/issues open an issue] on the tracker and someone will create the translation for you.
+If you want to translate Pioneer to an entirely new language, please [https://github.com/pioneerspacesim/pioneer/issues open an issue] on the tracker and someone will create the translation for you.
 English is the canonical language for Pioneer. As such, you can't directly modify the english strings through Transifex. If you want to change those, you'll need to make the change in source code hosted in git and submit a pull request like for a normal code change.