Translation file magento 2 i18n

Question

I'm trying to change "Excl. Tax:" to "Excl. Vat:" and have created a CSV file called en_GB.csv which contains the line - "Tax:", "Vat:".

I've saved and uploaded this to app/design/frontend/Magento/luma/i18n/en_GB.csv.
The translation hasn't worked as my store still shows "Excl. Tax".
I've deployed static files and run the upgrade command too.
Not too sure what to try next?

Answer 1

If the manual translation doesn't work, you can try Magento generation of translation dictionary by collecting translatable phrases in Magento 2.3.x.

Since you are configuring a Magento store in en_GB language. You can collect translatable phrases through this command:

php bin/magento i18n:collect-phrases --output "app/i18n/Magento/en_GB.csv" --magento  

After running the above command, you can check and open the file with the collected translatable phrases from this path app/i18n/Magento/en_GB.csv
From there you can find and replace every "Excl. Tax" translatable phrase.
After you finish changing those words, you should run below command:

php bin/magento i18n:pack app/i18n/Magento/en_GB.csv -d en_GB  

Flush cache. And your changes will reflect in the frontend.

Answer 2

You need to use full phrase (this one was without ":") :

"Excl. Tax","Excl. Vat"

because it's

data-label="<?php echo $block->escapeHtml(__('Excl. Tax'));?>">

and if You translate for options:

"Excl. Tax:","Excl. Vat:"

its always need to be exact phrase.

Another example from Module_Tax

"Excl. tax:","Excl. VAT:"

Remember to not add spaces between ","