[Solved]en_us.lang issues

[jredfox]

when I rename en_US.lang > "en_us.lang" it no longer works anymore. I looked at the twilight forest mod and they didn't use caps I tried using a resource pack and it required lowercase. What is the fix since twilight forest and resource packs both require toLowerCase()? If it makes a difference it happens the same way once it's compiled

 

Solution: use a pack.mcmeta or use caps for the last two letters forge I suppose has a different format from resource packs? Example below first comment

Edited April 5, 2018 by jredfox

[DaemonUmbra]

If you don't have a pack.mcmeta file, create it with the following contents and put it in src/main/resources:
 

{
  "pack": {
    "pack_format": 3,
    "description": "Resources for <Your Mod name> mod"
  }
}

The ["pack_format":3] bit is what will make it work all lowercase

Edited April 5, 2018 by DaemonUmbra

[jredfox]

1 minute ago, DaemonUmbra said:

If you don't have a pack.mcmeta file, create it with the following contents and put it in src/main/resources:
 

{
  "pack": {
    "pack_format": 3,
    "description": "Resources for <Your Mod name> mod"
  }
}

The ["pack_format":3] bit is what will make it work all lowercase

is this the same for older versions like 1.8.9 and 1.10.2?

[DaemonUmbra]

It should work as far back as when pack format 3 became a thing (I do not know the exact version). Any further back and you'll need to stick with en_US.lang.

[jredfox]

2 minutes ago, DaemonUmbra said:

It should work as far back as when pack format 3 became a thing (I do not know the exact version). Any further back and you'll need to stick with en_US.lang.

Ok how do you get the en_us.lang to an external file location from the jar loading since I want to read and write to it for my library it automates things. And if the read/write stops in the middle I don't want the jar file corrupting 

Edited April 5, 2018 by jredfox

[DaemonUmbra]

It is automatically read by forge and/or minecraft itself and used to translate text strings to the proper language, I can't say I have extensive experience with this but I'm fairly sure if you're trying to hot-edit your .lang you're doing something wrong.

Edited April 5, 2018 by DaemonUmbra

[jredfox]

8 minutes ago, DaemonUmbra said:

It is automatically read by forge and used to translate text strings to the proper language, I can't say I have extensive experience with this but I'm fairly sure if you're trying to hot-edit your .lang you're doing something wrong.

No I am not that's the point automation is the point. I don't want people or me to manually write lines to a .lang file when I can just automate it and add the line if it doesn't exist. I only need one lang file per language since I can override even other mods lang with another lang. I already have an highly optimized way of reading and writing using my library only writes if it detects an update reads it using java api. I also plan on only loading plan on only writing lang files from languages that are registered.

 

To make things simple again How do I load en_us.lang external from the jar?

I just need the lang file loading from an external location from the jar file where do I override? Do I require an IResourcePack? 

Edited April 5, 2018 by jredfox

[DaemonUmbra]

That is beyond my knowledge. Give the thread some time and someone more knowledgeable than me might wander in.

Edited April 5, 2018 by DaemonUmbra

[jredfox]

2 minutes ago, DaemonUmbra said:

That is beyond my knowledge. Give the thread some time and someone more knowledgeable than me might wander in.

well it's a separate issue so I will just post a new forum thought I would just ask since it looked like you might know.