Inline translations

Added in version 1.5.56

In the old days, the only way to translate plugins was by hardcoding it in the project itself. That means you weren't able to provide translations for your own plugins and rather had to offer different variants in order to offer localization.

To solve that issue, TheoTown introduced inline translations for plugins. The way it works is by using a special syntax within the plugin. Let's have a look at this example from the wandering animals plugin:

"title":"Wandering animals"

That's how a regular title definition looks like. We can append specialized translations to it by writing [languagetag]Translation. For example for the case of a German translation that would look like:

"title":"Wandering animals[de]Streunende Tiere"

You can append as many specialized translations as you want to. The game will then pick that one that's closest to the current language. The first case (here the English one without []) will be used as a fallback translation if no other translation does fit. We recommend to use English for it.

This special syntax also works for the text attribute.

Note that only languages that are supported by the game natively can be translated that way. Have a look at the public translation repository for the supported language codes.

We also suggest that you save the JSON files using UTF-8 encoding to minimize issues reading non-ASCII characters.

_{This page has been adapted from a topic on the official TheoTown forum.}