testing translations locally

[gyorokpeter]

Is there a way to download the translations and inject them into the game to save the waiting for the next release and also allow for a more interactive workflow?
Crowdin allows download but it gives a zip containing .ini files, and there are no .ini files in the Factorio directory inside Steam.

[TheEnemy42]

None that I know of but I'd love the opportunity, especially since the slow-down post release. I'm still fine tuning the translations and seeing it in-game helps a lot for context.

[eradicator]

Crowdin allows download but it gives a zip containing .ini files, and there are no .ini files in the Factorio directory inside Steam.

Not sure how the crowdin files look inside, but factorio locale.cfg files *are* ini files, they just have a different file extension. So if you're lucky it might be enough to rename them.

[gyorokpeter]

Turns out it's not a simple rename and overwrite. There are minor syntax differences in the files downloaded from Crowdin that Factorio chokes on:

unconfirmed-mod-changes="__1__ __plural_for_parameter_1_ {1 = mod | rest = mods} __ megváltozott.
CONTEXTREQUEST"

This two-line string is represented as a single string with an embedded \n in the equivalent .cfg file. (Ironically the translation itself is garbage and needs to be replaced.)

So I came up with the following conversion code:

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import subprocess
import os
import re

temp = "D:/Temp/FactorioTranslations"

subprocess.run(["D:/Program Files/7-Zip/7z", "e", "D:/Temp/Factorio (hu).zip", "-y", "-o"+temp])
files = os.listdir(temp)

def rpl1(src,dst):
    lines=[]
    for line in open(src, encoding='utf8'):
        if line[-1:] == "\n":
            line = line[:-1]
        if len(line) == 0:
            pass
        elif re.match("^\[.*\]$", line):
            lines.append(line)
        elif re.match("^[^=]*=", line):
            lines.append(line)
        else:
            lines[len(lines)-1] = lines[len(lines)-1]+"\\n"+line
    open(dst, encoding='utf8', mode='w').write("\n".join(lines))

def rpl(curr):
    currf = os.listdir(curr)
    if not "hu" in currf:
        print("no \"hu\" in {}".format(curr))
        return
    nxt = os.path.join(curr,"hu")
    nxtf = os.listdir(nxt)
    for f in nxtf:
        if ".cfg" in f:
            nxtf2 = os.path.join(nxt, f)
            srcf = os.path.join(temp, f.replace(".cfg", ".ini"))
            if not os.path.isfile(srcf):
                print("no localized file for: {}".format(srcf))
            else:
                print("replacing {} with {}".format(nxtf2, srcf))
                rpl1(srcf, nxtf2)

def rp(curr):
    currf = os.listdir(curr)
    for f in currf:
        nxt = os.path.join(curr, f)
        if f == "locale":
            rpl(nxt)
        elif os.path.isdir(nxt):
            rp(nxt)

rp("D:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Factorio")

[valneq]

Well … if the translation itself does not contain newline characters, but \n instead, it's already half way there …

[Dev-iL]

Whenever I wanted to test translations in the past, I would simply modify the .cfg files directly (and reload the game). Of course this is not very useful when you want to modify a large number of strings, but very convenient otherwise. Another alternative, for those who don't want to edit the original files, is to copy the relevant cfg files into a new folder with the same directory structure as the Factorio root, and turn it into a mod you can then turn on\off in-game (I'm not sure about specifics because I haven't done this in years, but that's the general idea).