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

This list is incomplete!

Name	Czech	English	French	German	Italian	Spanish	Russian	Portuguese	Polish
Awaiting the Storm	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Chalice	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Living Expenses	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Outpost	No	Yes	Yes	50%	50%	No	No	No	No
Special Delivery	No	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Thief's Den	No	Yes	No	50%	Yes	No	No	No	No
The Thieves	No	Yes	Yes	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.
• The bitmaps in the various menus where converted to text, except the huge headers (these use a different font, which we not yet have).
• 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 1140 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 worked around.
• Translations are complete for English, Italian, Czech, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, French and German. Spanish is incomplete. Other languages are missing, but hopefully some translators step up.

TODO

1. 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.
2. When an l10n.pk4 file is updated, the entire mission is redownloaded. That should be avoided somehow.
3. 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