# What happend to the german translation?

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-happend-to-the-german-translation/26496>\
**Category:** Translations Team Discussion\
**Created:** [June 17, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-happend-to-the-german-translation/26496 "2021-06-17T16:47:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bjo\_Hart](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/bjo_hart/32/8931_2.png) [@Bjo\_Hart](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Bjo_Hart)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-happend-to-the-german-translation/26496/1 "2021-06-17T16:47:20Z")

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Hi folks!

Today i decided to play a round of good old CDDA. But i was shocked, all the german translations for items where gone…

Can anyone tell me what happend?

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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 18, 2021, 12:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-happend-to-the-german-translation/26496/2 "2021-06-18T00:42:48Z")

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A little context would be nice, where did you get your copy of DDA, what version is it, what OS are you running on, etc.

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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-happend-to-the-german-translation/26496/3 "2021-06-18T01:21:06Z")

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> [@Bjo\_Hart](#):
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> […] all the german translations for items where gone…

I can confirm this. Well, sort of. Not all, but most of it.  
I don’t know how this happened, though.

Below is an image showing a screenshot, taken from an inventory from a randomly chosen build (in this case experimental build 11094) on the top, and one from the same inventory in a more recent version (2021-06-13-0522) on the bottom.

 ![Screwdriver? More like screwed over, am I right?](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/cataclysmdda/original/2X/4/450cbea221f3e5ce787782410ce0a409ab016a69.png)  
As you can see, a lot of the translation was lost.

> [@kevin.granade](#):
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> […] where did you get your copy of DDA, […]

In my case, both of them came directly from the GitHub release page.  
I’m running the Windows 7 64-Bit version.

Interestingly, most of the other things (menus, map tiles, overmap tiles and item descriptions for example) are not affected, as far as I can tell.

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**Author:** ![Erk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/erk/32/3871_2.png) [@Erk](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Erk)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 2:05am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-happend-to-the-german-translation/26496/4 "2021-06-18T02:05:37Z")

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[Routine i18n updates on 31 May 2021 by BrettDong · Pull Request #49107 · CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA · GitHub](https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/49107) seems to have an awful lot of deleted lines for a routine translation. It might be an accident, I’ll look more.

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**Author:** ![Valase](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/valase/32/6972_2.png) [@Valase](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Valase)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2021, 3:46am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/what-happend-to-the-german-translation/26496/5 "2021-06-18T03:46:16Z")

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Hm, that looks interesting, but after downloading and testing in 2021-05-22-0734 (again, a random pick), it seems like it happend before that (it’s already broken at that point).  
I’ll try to pinpoint it a bit more…

Edit: Well, after going through the list of changes done to the german translation file, I’ve noticed that the word “Schraubenzieher”, the translation for `screwdriver`, is no longer found in the translation file after this pull request:

> <https://github.com/CleverRaven/Cataclysm-DDA/pull/47937>
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> \#### Summary
> I18N "Routine i18n updates on 7 Mar 2021"
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> \#### Additional conte…xt
> This is pulled from \`0.F-cataclysm-dda\` resource from Transifex.