# How to use localized version?
**URL:** https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-use-localized-version/5011
**Category:** The Garage
**Created:** [February 8, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-use-localized-version/5011 "2014-02-08T13:56:19Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Wuzzy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wuzzy)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2014, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-use-localized-version/5011/1 "2014-02-08T13:56:19Z")
Hi, I am using the development version of C:DDA. I noticed it defaults to English again, but my system language is German. In 0.9, C:DDA was German by default, now it’t back to English.
So how do I select the language for C:DDA in the development version?
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### Author:  [@Wuzzy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wuzzy)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2014, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-use-localized-version/5011/2 "2014-02-28T02:36:37Z")
Can nobody help me? ☹
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### Author:  [@i2amroy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/i2amroy)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2014, 4:22am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-use-localized-version/5011/3 "2014-02-28T04:22:18Z")
No clue personally. I’d suggest asking down on the translation boards at the bottom of the forum, they can probably get you pointed in the right direction there. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Soyweiser](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Soyweiser)
#### Post date: [February 28, 2014, 5:36pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-use-localized-version/5011/4 "2014-02-28T17:36:51Z")
No clue, but made an issue: [https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/6357](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/issues/6357)
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### Author:  [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2014, 9:15am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-use-localized-version/5011/5 "2014-03-01T09:15:04Z")
Sorry for the delay, I finally had some time to dig into this, and it’s a good thing I had time, because it took all evening. I think what happened is some bad .po files got checked in, which has been keeping the gettext tools from working properly. I imported the latest batch of .po files from launchpad, so based on those a:
```auto
make LANGUAGES
or
make LANGUAGES=de_DE
```
Should create fresh .mo files, which cataclysm should then start using.
There was also an issue with some code that tried to use language specific names for game worlds that was causing a crash, but sounds like you didn’t hit that one.
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### Author:  [@Wuzzy](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Wuzzy)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2014, 12:04am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/how-to-use-localized-version/5011/6 "2014-03-03T00:04:50Z")
Okay, with your help (also in GitHub) I managed to get my localized version working again.
Thanks.