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MSFS20 Documentation on translations/localizations of custom strings?

Hans Humblet

Hans Humblet

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Does anybody know if there is any documentation out there about how to localize strings that are used in custom made aircraft?
I tried to put them in the main folder (.locPak files, aside the SimObjects folder) and tried to reference them in my checklists. However, without any success... :confused:
 
I can get custom localization strings to appear in tooltips but I couldn't figure out how to get them to work in checklists despite trying just about every combination I could think of.

In Tooltips you use the @TT_Package macro which seems to be able to find the locpak files. In the SDK about Resource Variables it says "In this example the <Macro> @TT_Package would be the path to the localisation file" . I was never able to find where the TT_Package macro was defined. Perhaps it's something hard coded into the program?

Reverse Polish Notation

docs.flightsimulator.com docs.flightsimulator.com

I can only assume that for checklists that MSFS only looks in one location for the checklist localizations and that is the fs-base locpak files (which you shouldn't touch).

Unless someone knows more and can explain how to access our own custom localizations I will continue to believe that custom localizations for checklists is simply not supported by MSFS at this stage.
 
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