Localization Won't Change From English When Running Outside Of Editor

Hi,

I'm rather stumped at the moment. I initially had a problem where the localization wouldn't load any strings at all. After marking the localization asset as addressable and rerunning the addressable build and analyze tool it worked. I then proceeded to add 6 more languages to the game, and on the menu depending on the flag you click I set the selected locale with the following line:

Code (CSharp):

1. LocalizationSettings.SelectedLocale = LocalizationSettings.AvailableLocales.GetLocale(locale);
2.  
3. //locale being passed in as either "en" or "ar" etc.

It works fine in the editor, but when I build the project and run it, it always seems to present the English translation no matter which option I pick.

To top it off, I'm running into these "Unfixable" issues and I can't seem to find any solutions online.


Assistance would be greatly appreciated. The client's deadline is around the corner and I'm quite desperate for an answer at this point.

 

Thanks for the insanely fast response @karl_jones . I've marked all of the locale assets as addressable, and the localization settings asset is not marked as addressable but to no avail. Please advise:

 

Apologies, I didn't reply directly to your answer. To also add to the below answer that I posted, I did follow the 5 issues you listed under the addressable issues thread but no luck unfortunately

 

Hi Karl,

I've unmarked the "Addressable" fields and ran the analyzer to mark them for me, but still no luck.

Please find attached the player log (I trust this is the right one): %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\CompanyName\ProductName\Player.log

 

That actually helped me narrow it down a bit thanks. So basically in the editor it has a value based on the locale, but when I try printing it out in the build itself I get this error on the logs:

Locales PreloadOperation has not been initialized, can not return the available locales.
NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
at LanguageSelector.Update () [0x0003d] in <09178970fdf74b198a385ba5eb2f0ee7>:0

Can you please provide some guidance as to how I can go about resolving this?

 

Hi Karl,

Thank you for your help thus far! Adding the following has resolved the issue:

Code (CSharp):

1. IEnumerator Start()
2.     {
3.         yield return LocalizationSettings.InitializationOperation;
4.     }

I am however still experiencing a minor issue on the Web Build. When I select a language and try load a string it gives me the following error:

"WebGL does not support synchronous Addressable loading. Please do not use WaitForCompletion on the WebGL platform."

I've tried to follow the solution you provided here: https://forum.unity.com/threads/wai...on-in-webgl-for-addressables-1-18-15.1152719/

I marked all the tables to preload, but I can't figure out where to toggle the following you mentioned:

"You will need to disable the wait for completion flag on the LocalizedStrings."

 

Thank you for your guidance Karl. By toggling all the settings and replacing GetLocalizedString with the asynchronous call it fixed all of the issues.

One last (hopefully minor) question I have is as to why Chinese / Arabic / Hindi characters don't render on WEB GL at all? Portugeuse / Spanish / French works like a charm and on the windows build I can see the Chinese characters.

I'm assuming it has something to do with the fallback fonts. Would this display correctly on people who are running browsers that support the respective languages?

 

Thanks Karl, I'll take a look. Much appreciated!

Is there anything I need to do from my side to mark this thread as solved?