UCS (Relic Entertainment's Localization file format)

Language Support for Relic Entertainment's .ucs localization files. Known games that use *.ucs files for localization are:

• Homeworld (series)
• Company of Heroes (series)
• Dawn of War (series)

some may no longer be property of Relic Entertainment.

Syntax highlighting

• LocString ID
• LocString message formatting parameters, e.g. %1% or %1NAME%
• Automatically generated LocString references, e.g. $1234 No Key

Formatting

• editor.insertSpaces is disabled by default for *.ucs files This can be adjusted with the language-specific setting in a settings.json file:

  {
      "[ucs]": {
          "editor.insertSpaces": true
      }
  }

Linting / diagnostics

• Errors:

  • Invalid LocString (no tab separator)
  • Missing LocString ID number
  • Invalid LocString ID (not an integer)
  • Duplicate LocString ID

• Warnings:

  • Empty line (before end of file)
  • Empty LocString message
  • Duplicate LocString message