Crowdin editor unable to display plaintext or .ini files?

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Hi all,

First time using Crowdin. I’m attempting to add strings/text to translate and it advises me to use the editor.

However, it appears the editor doesn’t even attempt to load a plaintext file, maybe because it has a non-standard extension? It just gives a generic “No preview available” or “No Strings to Display”.

My files are plaintext in the Windows Ini File format and use the file extension .lang as the language I code in does not have a standard for translatable strings. I would like to keep using the ini file format. You can see the files I’m attempting to upload and translate here:

I’m sure I’m doing some sort of process incorrectly but I don’t know what specifically. Any advice is appreciated

Thanks in advance

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Hi @rcmaehl !
We support ini file format just fine, kindly see file formats that can be uploaded to Crowdin:

In order to read a file properly, you need to upload a source file with the corresponding file extention, for example: source.ini. After that the strings will be available in the Editor for translation

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Will do. Just confirming there’s no way to specify files without that extension as ini files without actually renaming the file?

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Hello @rcmaehl,

You can use our API to upload the files, where specify the file format - please take a look at this: Crowdin API v2 Reference (File-based)

Let me know if this is something you were looking for!