I’m only experimenting a little bit. I have UE 5.3.2 installed. Trying to learn how localization works. Sadly, it does not work. Please note: i’m NOT making a game. I’m only learning the engine itself!
I looked into a tutorial and searched a lot about this problem. But no matter what i do, it does not work.
Problem is: when i start gathering the text, a red plus appears and the bar does not advance at all. Instead, it writes that there’s no locmeta file. It does find 108 words though. The project has been 4.27 before, so i made it 5.3.2. But is that really the reason for the error?
All Widgets have standard text blocks. No strings. I can copy & paste the output log here, but idk how without that it makes this question ages long.
In another thread i’ve read that it’s a bug in 5.5 and 5.6 (or was). But i’m using 5.3.2, so much earlier. Is this bug still present in this old version?
After researching for hours in different forums, i found a page from Epic and ChatGPT helped me understand it.
Therefore, i found a workaround, but the problem is not entirely solved yet. The problem persists, that i can not gather text within the editor UI. I can only do it with a Windows CMD command, which is:
This seemingly caused the engine to gather the text without the editor UI. I did get a “de.po” file now. Finally! I guess i have to use this method in the future, if no one here knows how to fix the editor UI issue.
I was able to figure out how to force the generation of a PO file for swedish. I just opened the culture editor (paper and arrow symbol to the right side of the word count bar) and added something. Like translating one line. Suddenly, a PO file for swedish appeared in the folder. I didn’t even export any.
By now, my workaround works fine for my purposes. A developer probably doesn’t want to go all these extra steps for some localization.
I also figured out that “gather text” within the editor seems to work at least partially. The progress bar is never moving, nor even starting. The red cross appears about 10 seconds after starting it. But i do see the word count go up.
Atm i have the issue that the PO file for german isn’t being updated. “Gather text” in the editor finds the new words (again without progressing the bar) and i could find them in the culture editor too. Yet, no export possible. The CMD command for gathering the text also has no effect on updating the PO file. I’ll try to find a workaround for this too and share it here.
Maybe only the UE devs could explain is weird behavior. I might never get to know it.
