Language override not working

"edit it then change the language string" -> this is exactly what I am not going to do. As I stated above: "in a way that it does not get overridden on the next update". Is there no update save customisation possible?

There's no way to change the language string without changing the language string. We have no override system in place. If your language plugin isn't default_language then you won't lose any changes when updating CB. You'll only lose changes if you install the plugin over it self.

"We have no override system in place" - What???

Why dont you simply utilise the native Joomla feature? It is around for quite some time now.

"You'll only lose changes if you install the plugin over it self." -> which I have to do on the next update when the updated language file is published as well.

That is very unfortunate and disappointing.

Why dont you simply utilise the native Joomla feature? It is around for quite some time now.

Because it does not fit our needs. We have a language plugin usage implemented that works perfectly fine. Simply edit your language files to whatever you want. You can create your own language plugins, install them, and your changes will never be lost unless you install over it. This is why we provide the English language plugin to get started. There are also numerous 3rd party language plugins being maintained by the community.

We are moving all language usage to our CBTxt usage that works quite efficiently and is easily extended. We'll be eventually adding an override system, but I don't know specifically when.

"maintained by the community", exactly that is the problem - my changes to the 3rd party language plugin are lost when there is an update. And I dont want to maintain my own plugin just beacause one single string is misspelled in the 3rd party language plugin, just doesnt make any sense.

Yes, please come up with an override system.

Cheers

"maintained by the community", exactly that is the problem - my changes to the 3rd party language plugin are lost when there is an update. And I dont want to maintain my own plugin just beacause one single string is misspelled in the 3rd party language plugin, just doesnt make any sense.

Do a file DIFF using a program like Winmerge to see what has changed or use a merging program to merge the two files. There are plenty of options available. You can also program setup a private fork on our transifix below and just merge everytime there's an update and you'll keep your changes.

www.transifex.com/projects/p/cb/

The issue with our old define usage is that it uses defines. Once a constant has been defined it can not change. So having overrides right now will not work. Once we're full CBTxt usage we can look into it, but for now you'll need to maintain your language files accordingly.