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Translating markup strings

Posted: 31 December 2025, 13:28
by CherryGloom
Hi! I'm new to translation on BGA but not new to translation overall. I'm currently translating Reforest and not quite sure how to proceed with things like "${handCardLimit}${handCardLimitModifier} (Hand Card Limit)".
As I understood, these are markup strings and should be left alone, but since I'm not sure I wanted to clarify. Should I just copy them into my translation as is?

Re: Translating markup strings

Posted: 31 December 2025, 17:22
by Thomas
That are placeholders (not markup tags). The game will replace them with current values (e.g. the current number of cards, an icon, …). Please do not translate them.

If needed, you can change the position of the placeholders, if that fits better in the target language. For example instead of ${player} plays a ${number} ${color}.“, your language may use ${player} spielt eine ${color} ${number}.“.

Re: Translating markup strings

Posted: 31 December 2025, 20:50
by CherryGloom
Big thanks for the info! I tried looking up the correct name and somehow ended up with "markup strings". I'm not great with programming lol.