Overview

By default the client (and menu) loads both resource/gameui_[LANG].txt, but only the client looks for resources/[GAME]_[LANG].txt.

The client or menu game code is allowed to call Locale_AddFile() to add new resource files to the localization table.

The localization table gets re-loaded upon a renderer restart, such as when invoking vid_reload.

Resouce Files

While the engine has its own localization support with .po files, they're unfortunately not of any use with dynamically typed strings.

So we built a system that's more or less compatible with whatever Valve does in Source. It uses hash tables for fast look-ups.

The engine attempts to set lang to the operating system's appropriate locale. We then do a look-up, falling back to english as the suffix for our resource files.

Language Table