# Is there a way to reload the translations and redraw the screen in-game?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-reload-the-translations-and-redraw-the-screen-in-game/9756>\
**Category:** Translations Team Discussion\
**Created:** [June 6, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-reload-the-translations-and-redraw-the-screen-in-game/9756 "2015-06-06T18:39:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![impossible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@impossible](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/impossible)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 6:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-reload-the-translations-and-redraw-the-screen-in-game/9756/1 "2015-06-06T18:39:09Z")

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It will be very convenient. 🙂

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2015, 7:51pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-reload-the-translations-and-redraw-the-screen-in-game/9756/2 "2015-06-06T19:51:51Z")

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Not that I know of, you’d need to dig into the gettext documentation to find out if that’s possible at runtime.

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**Author:** ![impossible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@impossible](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/impossible)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-reload-the-translations-and-redraw-the-screen-in-game/9756/3 "2015-06-07T23:40:21Z")

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> [@Kevin Granade](#):
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> Not that I know of, you’d need to dig into the gettext documentation to find out if that’s possible at runtime.

Bad news…I’ve checked the documentation and look into its source code. There is NO way to clear cache. I hope there is an alternative to gettext somewhere for testing. :🙂

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**Author:** ![LazyCat-rus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@LazyCat-rus](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/LazyCat-rus)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 6:25am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-reload-the-translations-and-redraw-the-screen-in-game/9756/4 "2015-06-08T06:25:30Z")

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Why not? This is working on 85% strings right now.

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**Author:** ![impossible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@impossible](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/impossible)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2015, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-reload-the-translations-and-redraw-the-screen-in-game/9756/5 "2015-06-08T20:25:47Z")

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> [@LazyCat-rus](#):
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> Why not? This is working on 85% strings right now.

Oh, I mean reloading the strings for the same language.