Can’t export STEP file (Works if language is set to English)

[paulvdh]

Marekr has a good explanation for how these strange translations appear in KiCad:

Something is wrong with language translations

This is probably not a weblate issue btw. For awhile with 5.99, nobody was really updating the language translations outside French and Italian. The gnu tools (poedit) start to “fuzzy translate” the constantly changing strings from the kicad codebase to reconcile mismatches and shifts of strings and the end result is basically complete garbage after it builds up and nobody fixes strings in the interim. The Polish language became mostly garbage pre-weblate due to the fuzzy matches. Then post web…

But about the bug:
I have a suspicion that there are some bugs that are triggered by language settings.

For example this thread, where symbol fields are duplicated (has lots of French text)

Symbols fields are twice displayed in edit symbol field

Hi all, I have some issue with symbol field that appear two times in symbol field edit chart, and when I edit symbol properties (E) .For example I have two times Footprint field I don’t really know when it happened, maybe when I changed preference from to english <-> french. Never mind, I would like to kill those fields . There is a button to add field ,not to kill one. How can I do ? is it possible to directly edit the file that manages fields and do some cleaning ? BR my kicad version …

And this one, where symbol fields have disappeared:

Edit symbol field problem 2

[v] Hi everyone, I’ve been using KiCad and Altium for a long time but I’m new to the forum as this is the first time that, after hours of research, I can’t solve the problem.! Last night, while everything was working fine, I left my pc with kicad open and probably something unsaved. I put the pc in suspension but I noticed that there was a windows update notification and this morning I found the PC restarted without the notification anymore. I hate windows and its damn updates! The problem: …

The feeling is not solid enough to make a bug report for it though.