Can war3mapSkin.txt be used to create custom localized strings?

[HerlySQR]

Hello, I was testing a bit with the war3mapSkin.txt file to see if I can create custom localized strings, I mean I can just create a custom tag for them like "Y_AHORA=Espero que funcione" and then use:

Display (Localize(Y_AHORA))

And it worked, in printed "Espero que funcione", and then tested if I can do it for each locale to see if I can print different texts for different languages of the game and also worked, I don't know if I'm the first one that found this because I couldn't find any other thread about this so probably is a reason that none say something about this, so I'm asking if there is a problem with trying this?

The only issue I found if I reopen the map in the editor with the various war3mapSkin.txt files in it and then save it again when I changed the language of the game then the default war3mapSkin.txt gets overwritten for the file of the locale I'm using, but is not hard to overcome that issue, pls tell me if there is something else.

 

[Tasyen]

Nice, did not know that one can create localized strings that way. They even survive Save&Load unlike fdf StringList.
One thing you did no mention, in Reforged one can add a suffix :<languageCodeTag> to the key, then it is only used by language x. Means one could put all such in one file (in Warcraft 3 V 1.32+).

TestString=Default String
TestString:deDE=Deutscher String
TestString:enUS=English String

 

[HerlySQR]

Nice, did not know that one can create localized strings that way. They even survive Save&Load unlike fdf StringList.
One thing you did no mention, in Reforged one can add a suffix :<languageCodeTag> to the key, then it is only used by language x. Means one could put all such in one file (in Warcraft 3 V 1.32+).

TestString=Default String
TestString:deDE=Deutscher String
TestString:enUS=English String

Thanks, and I didn't know that I can add those suffixes, I just created a different file for each locales like with war3map.wts