locale string access from lua

[binbinhfr]

Hi,

I'd like to access some kind of locale from the lua code (for example, to display messages in the locale langage).
So is there a function like GetStringLocale( "error-message" )

and in the locales there would be :
error-message = This is an error message
or
error-message = Ceci est un message d'erreur

[binbinhfr]

no idea ?

I really wonder how to generate locale translated message errors (or any kind of messages)...

[DaveMcW]

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player.print({"error-message"})

[binbinhfr]

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player.print({"error-message"})

Thanks for your answer, but could you be more precise, concerning what I should write into en.cfg in the locale dir ?
At the beginning of en.cfg, I simply put :

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error-message = Test error message

But it does not work. It gives me an

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unknown key : "error-message"

[prg]

Where exactly did you put that file?

[binbinhfr]

Where exactly did you put that file?

My fault : I forgot to relaunch completely factorio, because it seems that a simple game reload does not work (as with control.lua...).

So it works for player.print, but how can I get this translation into my gui for example ? Into a string ? Let say I want to have the title of the buttons or of the frames also translated...

[prg]

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player.gui.center.add{type="frame", caption={"my-caption"}}

[binbinhfr]

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player.gui.center.add{type="frame", caption={"my-caption"}}

Ok. That's a beginning, but let say that I want to display an error message in a gui-label, with a caption like this :

"Objects missing : iron plate, steel plate, iron bar"

of course, the list of objects is subject to change...

my problem is that

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local s = tostring({"error-message"}) .. entity.localised_name

does not seem to work

as far as I understand, localized string are interprated by factorio, in call to print, caption, etc... but not by lua itself.
So can I concatenate a string that would maintain the CFG tags and passed them to the factorio calls ?