*.xml

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XML files are used to save text strings used for translation. All XML files are located in gamedata/configs/text/*lang*. XML files have these properties:

  1. They are saved in encoding Windows-1251. English translation won’t break if you’re using UTF, but russian will.
  2. Every string must have an unique id assigned to it.
  3. There is a single namespace for all xml files of one language. That means, no matter in which file you are saving your strings, they will be available in one place, namely game.translate_string(*id*).

XML file will look something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1251"?>
<string_table>
  <string id="nice_text_id">
    <text>Cool text inside text tags</text>
  </string>

  <string id="another_text_id">
    <text>...</text>
  </string>  
...
</string_table>

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