INI Localization

.ini files are commonly used in applications on various platforms. There is no standard for .ini files and the applications can vary in their use of key-value delimiters, comment masks, comment positions, sections nesting, support for blank lines…

So LingoHub has applied the following rules for .ini files that should match common variations.

Format

  • Key-value pairs are delimited with the equal character (=) or colon (:) and terminated by a new line.
  • Values can not spread to multiple lines.
  • Section declarations can have this form: [section].
  • All keys after the section declaration are associated with that section.
  • There is no explicit “end of section” delimiter and sections end on the next section declaration or at the end of the file.
  • Sections can not be nested.
  • The translation title will be a combination of the section and the segment key. This combination has to be unique in your LingoHub project.
  • Placeholders are not supported because there is no standardized format. This means LingoHub is not able to detect placeholders to give you LingoChecks support.
  • Comment lines can start with a hash sign (#) or semicolon (;) and everything up to the end of the line is treated as a comment.
  • A comment is assigned to the next key-value pair unless there are any blank lines or section declarations in between.

Example

Additional example files can be accessed here.