TShock supports automatic language detection based on your system regional settings. If you want to override this, set the `TSHOCK_LANGUAGE` environment variable to a different language, or pass the `-lang` command line argument to change the language.

If you can't load other languages, make sure that you still have a folder called `i18n` and that your language folder of choice contains a `.mo` file. If it does, those translations should load successfully if you override the language settings using `TSHOCK_LANGUAGE` or if you set your regional settings to the right language.

The base for the i18n system was built by Janet Blackquill ([@pontaoski](https://github.com/pontaoski)). A small donation in her honor was made to the [KDE project](https://kde.org/) as a thankyou for this work.

## Simplified Chinese (`zh_CN`)

We owe a very special thanks to our `zh_CN` translators. From the start of the project, we wanted `zh_CN` to be one of our best supported languages. Thank you to the following contributors of translations:

|Name|Translated (Words)|
|--------|--------|
|xml3344 has stopped making trouble (1212122222)|3176|
|Axeel (AxeelAnder)|2273|
|SGKoishi|2129|
|Leader-txt (Leader_txt)|1568|
|Cai233|1335|
|hufang 360 (hufang360)|892|
|StarCloud-cy|601|
|JJJJGGGG12345|454|
|Seele Vollerei (aaa1115910)|302|
|问心\|MiaoVPS (WenXin_MiaoVPS)|256|
|Jifeng|60|
|xml3344|27|
|kuaizhi|23|
|Muteduanxing|13|
|Xlink|8|
|Smelody|6|

For the most up-to-date list of translators, see the [top member report on Crowdin](https://crowdin.com/project/tshock/reports/top-members). You should adjust the date range to select from October 21, 2022 onward.

## Other language projects
The following languages have had significant progress:
* Russian (`ru_RU`)
* Spanish (`es_ES`)
* Indonesian (`id_ID`)

The following are active projects without significant progress:

* German (`de_DE`)
* Turkish (`tr_TR`)
* French (`fr_FR`)
* French, Quebec (`fr_QC`)
* Japanese (`ja_JP`)
* Russian (Ukraine) (`ru_UA`)
* Toki Pona (`tok`)

If you'd like your language to be supported, please let us know in Discord.

We are particularly interested in `zh_CN`, `ru_RU`, and `es_ES` because these are the most commonly used languages in conjunction with TShock.