translate teletext txt

translate_teletext.txt — TV teletext and chat

The in-game TV's teletext pages (news, weather, recipes, quotes, sports) and the live chat overlay are populated by PlayMaker FSMs that rebuild the on-screen text every time the page or message changes. Translating those through the normal translate.txt flow doesn't work — the game overwrites it the next frame.

translate_teletext.txt is read by a dedicated FSM hook that injects translations at the right point in the game's own pipeline, so they stick.

Important

Order and [CATEGORY] headers matter in this file. The plugin keys some translations by their position inside a section (especially the news headlines). Do not reorder entries, and do not add or remove sections. Translate in place.

File format

The file is divided into [section] blocks. Inside each block, you have:

• Single-line entries, same KEY = value format as translate.txt — comments start with #, multi-line \n works the same.
• Multi-line entries, where both source and translation span several lines, separated by a line containing only =.

A short single-line block:

[day]
MAANANTAI = 월요일
TIISTAI = 화요일
KESKIVIIKKO = 수요일
TORSTAI = 목요일
PERJANTAI = 금요일
LAUANTAI = 토요일
SUNNUNTAI = 일요일

A multi-line news headline:

VIRON SOTAUHKAUS AIHEETON
Vuorokauden ajan jännitteitä nostanut
sotauhkaus on vedetty takaisin.
Viro uhkasi sekä Suomea että Venäjää
sodalla, mikäli vaatimuksiin ei suos-
tuttaisi.
= 
에스토니아의 전쟁 위협.. 결국 없던 일로\n
24시간 동안 긴장을 고조시켰던 전쟁 
위협은 결국 없던 일이되었습니다.
에스토니아는 핀란드와 러시아 양국에 
요구 사항이 충족되지 않을 경우 전쟁을
선포하겠다고 위협했지만, 이러한 요구는
깔끔하게 무시되었습니다.

Blank lines separate one multi-line entry from the next. The = line in the middle separates the source block from the translation block.

Categories

Section	Contents
[fsm]	Weather page strings, weather codes, and the temperature pattern (pakkasta {0} astetta).
[day]	Day-of-week names used on the teletext header.
[ulkomaat]	Foreign news headlines, in the order the game displays them.
[kotimaa]	Domestic news headlines, in display order.
[urheilu]	Sports news, in display order.
[talous]	Economy news, in display order.
[ruoka]	Recipe pages.
[ajatus]	Quote-of-the-day pages.
[kulttuuri]	Culture / arts news.
[Chat.Day.Days]	Day-of-week names used in the TV chat overlay. (Separate from [day] because the chat FSM reads from its own list.)
[ChatMessages.All]	Every chat message line. The game cycles through these as the TV chat scrolls.

These are the only sections the plugin recognizes. Don't invent new ones.

Fallback to the global dictionary

If the plugin looks up a string and doesn't find it in this file, it falls back to the global dictionary built from translate.txt, translate_msc.txt, and translate_mod.txt. This means you don't have to duplicate shared phrases — translating MONDAY once in translate.txt is enough to cover most contexts where it appears, even if it shows up on a teletext page.

The teletext file is for the lines that exist only on the teletext or chat surfaces, plus anything where ordering inside a category matters.

The temperature pattern

The [fsm] section includes a special pattern entry for the temperature:

pakkasta {0} astetta = 영하 {0} 도

{0} is a placeholder the game fills with a number at runtime. Keep the placeholder, move it inside the sentence to fit your language. See Translation Patterns.

"I translated it but the line still shows in Finnish"

A small handful of teletext lines genuinely cannot be translated — the game re-writes them after the plugin has done its pass. This is a known limitation and is documented on the NexusMods page. Most lines do translate cleanly.

Reload

Save the file and press F8 in-world.