I18N Status

This article deals with the localisation/translation of both TDM itself, as well as Fan Missions.

The I18N support in TDM will only work with v1.07 or newer.

FM List

Translations Developed Under or Available through Language-Specific Third-Party Sites

These translations may in some cases go beyond I18N-text translations, to include images and vocals.

An example is DarkFate.org, which has Russian language translation of Thief-family games, including on the order of 100 TDM FMs. A current list may be found here. See also an earlier TDM forum post about Dark Fate resources for Russian-speaking translators of TDM FMs.

I18N-Text Translations Available Within TheDarkMod.com FMs

Click on a column header to sort the list, or toggle ascending/descending order.

This list may be incomplete!

Name	I18N?	cs	da	nl	en	fr	de	hu	it	es	ru	pt	pl
Special Delivery	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Awaiting the Storm	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Business as Usual	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Chalice of the Kings	50%	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Vengeance for a Thief Part 1	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Closemouthed Shadows	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Deceptive Shadows	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
House in Blackbog Hollow	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
House Of Theo	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Living Expenses	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Mad's Mountain	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Pandora's Box	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Rake Off	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Somewhere Above the City	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Swing	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Crown of Penitence	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Illusionist's Tower	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Outpost	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Parcel	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Rift	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Sons of Baltona 1	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Tears of Saint Lucia	90%	No	No	No	Yes	No	90%	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Thieves	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Thief's Den	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Too Late	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Training Mission	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Trapped!	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Winter Harvest v2.4	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
A Night to Remember	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
A Score to Settle	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Alberic's Curse	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Betrayal	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Dragon's Claw	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Fiasco at Fauchard Street	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
In Remembrance of Him	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Krysztalowy Grob (Crystal Grave)	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Let Sleeping Thieves Lie	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Lockdown	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Lord Dufford's	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Mandrasola	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
No Honor Among Thieves	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Patently Dangerous	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Reap as you sow	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Return to the City	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Rightful Property	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Samhain Night on Bone Hill	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Siege Shop	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Sneak and Destroy	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Sound Alert & Blackjack Trainer	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
St. Alban's Cathedral	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Alchemist	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Beleaguered Fence	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Builder's Influence	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Caduceus of St. Alban	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Creeps	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Glenham Tower	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Heart of Lone Salvation	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Knighton Manor	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Phrase Book	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
The Transaction	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
Flakebridge Monastery	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Old Habits	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No
In the North	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	No	No

If you want to help translating these missions into other languages, you can download them here.

TDM Core

99%

• All the strings in the menu, the HUD, the in-game messages, the different menus as well as inventory item names and categories have been made translatable.
• A charset has been defined and made supported by the code.
• Both the menu font (Carleton) and the HUD font (Stone) have been patched to include the foreign characters. (Stone misses a few, esp. uppercase ones.)
• The bitmaps in the various menus where converted to text, including the huge headers
• The default Doom3 english.lang has been slimmed down (from >5400 to 200 entries), then all the nec. strings for TDM have been added, including a lot of sensible default strings that are either useful or used in FMs (like names for inventory items, speaker names and so on), resulting over 1130 entries.
• There is a script which can convert old FMs into I18N capable FMs, even matching different translations.
• Both the 0xff character bug, as well as the problem that choiceDefs do not work have been resolved
• Menu and inventory name translations are complete for English, Danish, Italian, Czech, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, French, Spanish, German, Romanian, and Hungarian.
• Swedish, Slovak and Dutch can be selected in the menu, but as of February 2017 still have substantially incomplete translations. Anyone capable of providing said translations, even in part, please post in the TDM forum under the "I want to Help" section.
• Turkish has been added to the menu translation list and will be available in 2.05

TODO

1. The Download and Load/Save menu still need to be converted so their headlines can be translated.
2. Adding accented and Umlaut characters the other fonts (only the 24px variant needs still to be done). To make this easier, a Font Patcher utility has been written.
3. When an l10n.pk4 file is updated, the entire mission is redownloaded. That should be avoided somehow.
4. Find more people who can contribute translations – maybe make it easier by creating a website where anyone can contribute translations for individual strings, ala launchpad?

See Also

• I18N - Main article

Translation resources

• The charset TDM fonts use
• I18N.pl - a script to transform a FM into a mission and I18N data
• Bug Tracker entry #2779
• Text Decals for Signs etc.
• Fonts in TDM
• Font Conversion & Repair - with links to ExportFontToDoom3, Q3Font, Refont, and Font Patcher

Overview of translations

• I18N Status - Which FMs are translated into which language (not entirely up to date)
• Translating FMs
• List of translators
• Translator's Guide

Translation discussions

• Internationalization (Language) usage in TDM - Coverage of the topic by Tels.
• Translating the GUI
• The Dark Mod translation
• About localizing
• Translating missions: Mission author consensus request
• Discussion on state and accessibility of localizations back in 2013