# Translation manager import quirk

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**Created:** [December 23, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-manager-import-quirk/54430 "2021-12-23T14:52:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![ShaneH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@ShaneH](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ShaneH)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-manager-import-quirk/54430/1 "2021-12-23T14:52:46Z")

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Perspective 8.1.11

I exported my translation terms to ‘my\_terms\_es\_US.PROPERTIES’

I made a copy to ‘es\_US.PROPERTIES’ – note I removed the prefix!

I made some hand edits, then tried to re-import it. It would only import it as 'English (Alt)".

I added a dummy prefix back to the file name and the import correctly recognized it as ‘es\_US’.

So, at least for the ‘PROPERTY’ version when importing, it appears a prefix is required.

HTH.  
-Shane

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 3:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-manager-import-quirk/54430/2 "2021-12-23T15:13:14Z")

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Try using `.es_US` as a suffix, not a prefix.

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**Author:** ![ShaneH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3e96dc/32.png) [@ShaneH](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ShaneH)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-manager-import-quirk/54430/3 "2021-12-23T15:39:22Z")

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But then you technically have a prefix of ‘.’ 🙂

Like I said, it’s a quirk… it appears you have to have _something_ before the language designation in the file name on import, or it doesn’t detect the language correctly…

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2021, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/translation-manager-import-quirk/54430/4 "2021-12-23T16:16:05Z")

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I just looked closer at my driver module localization files. They are all triplets of the form:

```auto
something.properties
something_en.properties
something_en_US.properties

```

(Triplets because I only ship english with my drivers.) So, you need some variation on `something`, optionally followed by an underscore-delimited language/locale, followed by the file extension `.properties`.

So yes, your observation that you need _something_ is correct.