how to get untranslated string

[gfgtdf]

i have a translatable string object and i wonder how to get the untranslated string behind it.
does anyone know how to do that?

[Anonymissimus]

Calling tostring() on it always automatically translates it by calling the impl_tstring_tostring metamethod. In case the language setting is "American English" it should stay the same then as that's the language the strings should be in. There's no way to enforce this or to know whether it is the case.
Perhaps you should seriously ask yourself why you feel the need to do this ? Where does the string come from ? In case it is from your code you should have the answer yourself; in case it's not, it comes somewhere from core or the engine, in which case there should be a better alternative (such as unit ids for unit names etc).

[gfgtdf]

the string comes from different sources, (from me aswell as from the core).
and i want this for my serialize function, if i replace a string by its translation that would ofc remove the translatability.

[AI]

I just took a look at src/scripting/lua.cpp, and there is no mention of the base_str() method of t_string, so you cannot retrieve the untranslated version.

[gfgtdf]

ty for this info. i guess i'll have to drop translatability for savegames, make a complicated workaround, or use wesnoth.set_variable if the containing table is a valid wml table.