Why are localisation files so horrible to work with?

[Reman]

These files keep causing me a pain in every mod I try to make.

Right now, I'm having a problem with it again. I've added two techs to the game. One, Galactic Ambassadors, is working fine. The other, Efficient Food Management, is not. The localisations are both in the same file and I've checked the format a dozen times, but it just isn't working for my second tech.

Are there any guides or articles that demystify the localisation files? Does anybody know where there is a 0 after the colon?

 

[mate0815]

the number is only a marker from p´dox translation tool and without any function in mods.

for your problem: from eu4 i had some trouble, if stringnames have more than 2 underlines. try to cut one.

 

[Reman]

the number is only a marker from p´dox translation tool and without any function in mods.

for your problem: from eu4 i had some trouble, if stringnames have more than 2 underlines. try to cut one.

Looks like it's still broken.

 

[mate0815]

next try: remove the empty lines inside the l_english-block. the last line, too, please.

 

[Reman]

next try: remove the empty lines inside the l_english-block. the last line, too, please.

No cigar.
Once again, for some reason, Galactic Ambassadors is working but Efficient Food Management is not.

 

[mate0815]

Once again, for some reason, Galactic Ambassadors is working but Efficient Food Management is not.

thats why i´m looking for everything behind the first lines...
can you activate hidden signs? maybe there is a TAB instead of SPACE anywhere... or a misguided i-point, like í or such stuff.

 

[Reman]

thats why i´m looking for everything behind the first lines...
can you activate hidden signs? maybe there is a TAB instead of SPACE anywhere... or a misguided i-point, like í or such stuff.

Here's the file with the hidden symbols on. I also checked by pasting it into MS Word and viewing the hidden symbols there to see if there were any rogue tabs instead of spaces. There were not.

For some reason it's working now. I changed absolutely nothing, but it's working for some reason.

Thanks for your help anyways. I'm sure I'll be back since I'll be using the localisation file quite a lot, and it's just terrible to work with. Seriously, it's a 5 star atrocity.

 

[mate0815]

good to hear. but not really satisfacting, if we can´t find out, why...