French localisation

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Hello everyone,

There are mistakes in the french translation, so I tried different things to have my personal corrections effective.

For example : "Soil improvement" in the Tech Tree was translated by "Amendmend". Correct would be "Amélioration terrain", for example.

I tried modding the TechTree XML file. No success, the "bad" translation appeared again. However, my mod appears in the mods list and is activated (checkboxed).

I even corrected the original file in D:\Jeux\GalCiv2\Data\French\TechTree. No success ! Here an extract from the corrected file and my correction in bold :

<Biology ID="Soil Enhancement">
  <DisplayName>Amélioration terrain</DisplayName>
  <Cost>400</Cost>
  <Description>Permet de rendre constructible le plus inapproprié des sols.</Description>

What is very confusing to me is that I don't understand where GalCiv2 still finds the "bad" translation, if it does'nt exist in the XML file any more !?

Are the localised XML files of GalCiv2 compiled or whatsoever ? That would explain why my corrections are never effective...

Have I missed something ?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You may be interested in the unofficial french translation available here http://trans-galactique.forum2jeux.com/ Lots of mistakes have been corrected and it is up to date to the latest version of GC2.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

For 2 mains reason:

- Paradox has made an official translation for GC2:DL that use the french directories

- the unofficial translation  isn't really mod: it works on an english setting and the files in the english directories are overwritten with the french ones. There are also some files in non languages directory that are changed.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thank You for your quick answers !

I made some new tests and it appears that there is a copy of the TechTree in the Save files. That's why my corrections didn't apparently work ! In fact they did if I started a new game.

Comment from a newbee : these little annoyances are nothing compared to the interest lying in this wonderful game !