Localization files

A localized Main Menu in Russian

“

In your language: 'Eat lead laddies!' Click to listen — The Demoman

”

Localization files govern how text and dialogue are used and shown in-game in the user's preferred language. This includes everything from item descriptions to achievement names.

For example, a Winger would be known as a Flügelstürmer in German.

The files below contain the appropriate text translations for 28 supported languages as determined by the Steam Translation Server (STS).

To help translate for the Steam Community or Steam games into your language, please visit the STS website.

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Trivia

• From January 17th, 2012 to April 27th, 2012, Valve played a little running gag in the updates notes by having the phrase "Updated Localization Files" in either different languages, unicodes, sarcasm tones, or even QR Image code.

Update history

October 8, 2007 Patch

• Various fixes to localized text.

October 9, 2007 Patch

• Various updates to Russian and Polish localization.

October 25, 2007 Patch

• Added a missing "cannot_be_spectator" localization string.

January 25, 2008 Patch

• Added Spanish map descriptions.

April 1, 2008 Patch

• Fixed bad characters in the chat string when achievements are announced in languages other than English.
• Fixed a few instances of truncated text in the menus and dialogs for languages other than English.

June 11, 2008 Patch

• Support custom Russian TF2 fonts.

June 19, 2008 Patch (Pyro Update)

• Added full Russian localization, with both fonts & speech.

June 23, 2008 Patch

• Incorporated the new Russian fonts into the base Team Fortress 2 fonts. Fixes the missing fonts problem when running in Russian with English VO.

July 29, 2008 Patch

• Fixed some clipped localized strings in various in-game dialogs.

August 20, 2008 Patch

• Fixed some problems with localized text.

March 5, 2009 Patch

• Fixed some localization issues with Scout achievement strings.

May 22, 2009 Patch

• Fixed German localization string for respawning players showing %1.

January 27, 2010 Patch

• Updated Italian localization strings.
• Updated the custom TF2 fonts with Polish characters.

February 3, 2010 Patch

• Fixed a weapon name localization issue.

February 4, 2010 Patch

• Fixed a client crash during the localization of item names

February 8, 2010 Patch

• Fixed Polish Team Fortress 2 fonts not being displayed correctly in the Main menu.

February 23, 2010 Patch

• Updated Russian localization strings.

May 10, 2010 Patch

• Fixed a missing localization string.

June 14, 2010 Patch

• Fixed client crash when rendering text strings.

July 8, 2010 Patch (Engineer Update)

• Added Romanian language support.

July 13, 2010 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 17, 2010 Patch

• Updated localization files.

August 25, 2010 Patch

• Updated localization strings based on community feedback.

September 8, 2010 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 10, 2010 Patch

• Fixed a case where some items would display an empty string for their name.

October 28, 2010 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 29, 2010 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

November 10, 2010 Patch

• Fixed a rare client crash caused by text rendering (Mac).
• Updated the server browser localization files.

November 19, 2010 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

November 22, 2010 Patch

• [Undocumented] Fixed and updated localization files.

December 2, 2010 Patch

• Added check to prevent control characters from user-provided item names and descriptions (replaced with spaces).

December 10, 2010 Patch

• Updated some files, for no reason whatsoever.

December 17, 2010 Patch

• Updated localization files.

December 21, 2010 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

January 19, 2011 Patch

• Updated the existing localization files.
• Added Czech, Hungarian, Romanian and Turkish localization files.

January 24, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

March 11, 2011 Patch

• Fixed the revenge crit label not being localized correctly.

March 23, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

April 18, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

May 6, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

May 12, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

May 18, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated localization files.

May 25, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

June 3, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.
• [Undocumented] Added localization for Planeswalker Helm and Planeswalker Goggles.

June 23, 2011 Patch (Über Update)

• Updated the shared localization files.

June 27, 2011 Patch]

• Updated the localization files.

July 1, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 7, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 20, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 22, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 27, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 3, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 9, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 15, 2011 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 18, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 23, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 30, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 15, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 13, 2011 Patch (Manniversary Update)

• Patch 1 Updated the localization files.
• Patch 2 Updated the localization files.

October 14, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 17, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 25, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

November 2, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

November 7, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

November 10, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

November 16, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

November 23, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 9, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 15, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 19, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 21, 2011 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 23, 2011 Patch

• Edited item names and descriptions that contained grave accents (’) to use single quotation marks (').

January 11, 2012 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

January 17, 2012 Patch

• Did not update the localization files.

January 26, 2012 Patch

• Localized the team goal strings for cp_steel and pl_frontier
• Added missing level_data strings to kill_eater_score_type elements in the GetSchema WebAPI response
• Undocumented changes: Updated all localization files.

February 9, 2012 Patch

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February 14, 2012 Patch

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February 23, 2012 Patch

• Fixed some instances of corrupted text when the save_replay key isn't bound
• 언어 파일 업데이트

March 1, 2012 Patch

• Arquivos de localização atualizados.

March 8, 2012 Patch

• Fixed a commentary string that referenced the Soldier instead of the Heavy

March 15, 2012 Patch

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March 22, 2012 Patch

• Fixed a bug that would cause chat-text strange weapon rank up notifications to sometimes display player names as "unknown"
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March 28, 2012 Patch

• Did not update the localization files that did not need updating

April 17, 2012 Patch

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April 27, 2012 Patch

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May 3, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated localization files.

May 10, 2012 Patch

• Updated the localisation files

May 11, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated localization files.

June 11, 2012 Patch

• Updated some of the localization files

June 19, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

June 20, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

June 27, 2012 Patch (Pyromania Update)

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

July 2, 2012 Patch

• Updated localization files.

July 5, 2012 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 3, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated localization files.

August 10, 2012 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 17, 2012 Patch

• Fixed the disconnect reason not being localized properly for Mann vs. Machine Mode.
• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

September 4, 2012 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 21, 2012 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 27, 2012 Patch

• Updated the localization files
• Moved map descriptions into the localization files
  • Map descriptions will still be loaded from the maps folder first if they exist

October 9, 2012 Patch

• Updated the localization files

October 26, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files

November 2, 2012 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated localization files.

December 4, 2012 Patch

• Patch 1 [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

December 20, 2012 Patch (Mecha Update)

• Updated the localization files.

January 8, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

January 16, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

January 24, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

February 1, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

February 14, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

March 12, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

March 19, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

May 17, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

June 5, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 20, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 27, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 3, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

September 16, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

October 10, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

October 10, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

October 31, 2013 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

November 6, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 18, 2013 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

January 9, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

January 13, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added Ukrainian localization.

January 23, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

March 5, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

March 6, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

April 1, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

April 18, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

April 24, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

April 29, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

May 15, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

June 11, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)

• Updated the localization files.

June 19, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

June 20, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

June 23, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

June 26, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 8, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 17, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 24, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

July 30, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 7, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 12, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 13, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 21, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 25, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 27, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 10, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 15, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

September 25, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Added Limited attribute to retired hats.

October 1, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

October 15, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Kick Messages are now localized for clients.
• Vote issue names are now localized in the vote menu.

October 20, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

October 29, 2014 Patch (Scream Fortress VI)

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

October 30, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

November 4, 2014 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

December 3, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 12, 2014 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 22, 2014 Patch (Smissmas 2014)

• Updated the localization files.

January 13, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

January 27, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

February 11, 2015 Patch #1

• Updated the localization files.

February 18, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

March 12, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

March 24, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

March 31, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

April 29, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

May 4, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

May 18, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

June 2, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

June 11, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

June 17, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 15, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

July 23, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 18, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 27, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 28, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 7, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 10, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 24, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 1, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 12, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 28, 2015 Patch (Scream Fortress 2015)

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

October 29, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

November 3, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

November 9, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

November 17, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

November 25, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

December 2, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

December 7, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

December 22, 2015 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the Localization files.

December 30, 2015 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

January 20, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

January 22, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

February 2, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

February 29, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

March 10, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

March 17, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

March 29, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

April 25, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

May 11, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

May 17, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

May 31, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

June 22, 2016 Patch #1

• Updated the localization files.

July 7, 2016 Patch (Meet Your Match Update)

• Updated the localization files.

July 14, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

July 28, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 3, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 14, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 16, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

August 19, 2016 Patch

• [Undocumented] Updated the localization files.

August 29, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 9, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 14, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

September 27, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 12, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 21, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

October 25, 2016 Patch

• Updated the localization files.

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