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October 4, 2016 at 2:45 am

This post was marked resolved however I’ll add some details for how the translation files are loaded for future readers.

I see in various topics filename is referred to as both “event_espresso-en_US.mo” and “event-espresso-en_US.mo”; which is correct, underscore or dash?

Event Espresso checks for the files in this order:

event_espresso-{locale}.mo

event-espresso-4-{locale}.mo

Either of those two filenames will work within /wp-content/uploads/espresso/languages/

Note that it is not just the dash and underscore that is different as the second filename includes -4- before the locale.

Also in POedit I am getting a warning that the language of the translation is the same as the source; I am only trying to change the wording in English so I assume this is okay?

Yes its fine, its just a warning from POEdit.

Finally, when I located the correct string, should I make the changes in the “Source text” or “Translation” box?

POEdit should not allow you to change the source field.

Source is the string you are looking to translate.

Translated is the string that will be output in place of the source.

Well, just cleared the cart and started a new checkout process and it worked.

EE has some internal caching which means for some text strings you will need to clear the cart completely (you can visit the /registration-cancelled/ page or just clear the cart) before the changes will take effect.