Title: Missing translation strings
Last modified: March 19, 2019

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# Missing translation strings

 *  [Eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edpaep/)
 * (@edpaep)
 * [7 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-translation-strings-5/)
 * Hi,
 * I do not find how to translate the validation messages in my form.
 * Please fill out this field
    Please check this box if you want to proceed
 * Furthermore, the payment status rendered by the {rfmp=”status”} variable in my
   e-mails is not translated either.
 * Please let me know where I can find these strings or how I can translate them.
 * NB: I installed the Loco Translate plugin but it doesn’t find the strings.
 * Thanks.

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 *  [hatesspam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hatesspam/)
 * (@hatesspam)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-translation-strings-5/#post-11630332)
 * Messages like “Please fill in this field”, “Please enter an e-mail address” and“
   Please select a value that is no less than” are generated by the web browser 
   independent of the plug-in.
 * Presumably the are in English because the browser you are using is in English.
 * The plug-in creator can override these messages, but the question then becomes
   if they should do that, considering it is the visitor’s choice to use a web browser
   that uses a certain language to visit web pages in a different language.
 *  [Stonehenge Creations](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duisterdenhaag/)
 * (@duisterdenhaag)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-translation-strings-5/#post-11630389)
 * [@hatesspam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hatesspam/), ehm… the browser
   does not control the website language. That only controls its menu bar etc. The
   website controls the main language with WP Locale. You _can_ change it automatically
   to suit the browsers, but that requires custom jQuery coding and is not default.
   
   My browsers are Dutch, but if set WP to any other language, the website will 
   be in that selected locale. 😉
 * [@edpaep](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edpaep/),
    Translation files are
   not included in the download anymore. WordPress moved that a few years ago to
   an online community so true natives could translate more efficient and better.
   Every one is welcome to contribute here: [https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mollie-forms/](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/mollie-forms/)
 *  [Stonehenge Creations](https://wordpress.org/support/users/duisterdenhaag/)
 * (@duisterdenhaag)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-translation-strings-5/#post-11630427)
 * > I installed the Loco Translate plugin but it doesn’t find the strings.
 * That is because Loco Translate (and other plugins) use the .pot file for translations.
   Nick, the developer of Mollie Forms, did not include that, because of the Slack
   translations. 😉
 * If you want to create your own, custom translation file, I would suggest downloading
   the free version of Poedit ([https://poedit.net](https://poedit.net)), create
   a .pot file and them translate the strings locally.
 * Beware though, that WordPress Slack translations will overrule the custom translations.
   the load_textdomain() function will first look in wp-content/languages/plugins/
   for the file. If that is not found, it will check the plugin folder.
 *  [hatesspam](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hatesspam/)
 * (@hatesspam)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-translation-strings-5/#post-11630710)
 * Patrick Buntsma, I did not say that the browser controls the website language.
   The browser does however provide its own validation strings if you use HTML 5
   forms. Sending a user on a wild goose chase for validation strings that do not
   occur in the plug-in is not helpful.
 * See [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms/Form_validation](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/HTML/Forms/Form_validation)
   under “built-in form validation”.
 *  Thread Starter [Eric](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edpaep/)
 * (@edpaep)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/missing-translation-strings-5/#post-11630823)
 * Hi guys,
    Thanks for your help. I did check the validation message in a Dutch
   version of Chrome and it appears that hatesspam is right. The messages are translated
   in the browser’s language. They do not appear in the pot file mollie-forms-nl_NL.
   po.
 * But I stll didn’t find how to translate the payment status rendered by the {rfmp
   =”status”} variable in my e-mails. There are 2 payment strings in the pot file(
   Paid and Not paid) but they do not seem to work for the mails.

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