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Posted at: 2026-01-21, 08:25 UTC+1.0

My add-on "Field Army" is not translated fully. I tried to investigate on my own, but nothing really works. I tried to place the line "addon = "field_army.wad"" everywhere but without any result. The problematic strings are locals wc_desc and wc_desc1. Both strings are in .po file but the translations are not uploaded. What should I do to make it work?

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Posted at: 2026-01-21, 11:22 UTC+1.0

Only name needs to pass the unlocalized string in the return table, all other strings including description should be already translated in Lua. Delete wc_desc_i18n and add the translation markup to wc_desc instead, then it works.

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Posted at: 2026-01-21, 11:49 UTC+1.0

The suggested solution corrects the wc_desc, but wc_desc1 still doesn't work.

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Posted at: 2026-01-21, 11:58 UTC+1.0

Since wc_desc1 is a local variable inside a function, you need to surround it with a pair of push_textdomain and pop_textdomain calls like any other translation call.

Also, ngettext returns an already translated string so don't wrap it in another layer of _() translation markup.

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Posted at: 2026-01-21, 12:07 UTC+1.0

Thank you.

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