It is identical.

For Trinity, localization only exist with boxed european version...

From Kalypso : Meines Wissens nach gibt es bei Impulse keine deutschen Versionen der Addons. Erst mit der demnächst im Handel erhältlichen Trinity-Edition gibt es deutsch lokalisierte Fassungen der Addons, die dann möglicherweise auch über Impulse zu beziehen sind.

Once you patch ( update ) trinity, you end up with English/French ( or English/German ) mixed game... As for localized update, Kalypso put the responsability on Stardock :

- Kalypso : Eigentlich sollten die Erweiterungen natürlich auch über Impulse in deutscher Sprache erhältlich sein. Wir haben uns diesbezüglich mit Stardock in Verbindung gesetzt und geben dir in Kürze Rückmeldung. Danke für dein Interesse und deine Nachfrage!

- Kalypso : Stardock arbeitet daran, die Erweiterungen auch in deutscher Sprache anzubieten. Die Plattform wird hierzu gerade technisch überarbeitet, um die Bereitstellung der korrekten Sprachversion zu gewährleisten. Wir bitten um Verständnis, dass sich die Auslieferung der deutschsprachigen Erweiterungen hierdurch verzögert.

Well, these Kalypso quote are from 2009 and no news since...

There is somehow a work around... seek in your old SOASE version the file "French_Movie_Sound.exe" and save it somewhere... install Trinity, copy the "French_Movie_Sound.exe" in the "/Program Files (x86)/Stardock Games/Sins of a Solar Empire" and run it... Video will be replaced by French version and sound will be partially replaced by French version...

Not perfect... all news sound from Entrenchment and Diplomacy will remain in english... crew from the Kol will speak French but crew from the Orgrov will be English...

Now, about the .str, there is a other problem... you can find french translation for sins, ent and dip at http://transgalactique.free.fr/telesins.html ... problem is that with Impulse, you cannot choice the version that you wish upgrade... it is always upgrade to the last version... 

German version are a little more updated :

- sins 1.14 : https://www.sinsofasolarempire.de/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,93/func,fileinfo/id,38/

- ent 1.08 : https://www.sinsofasolarempire.de/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,93/func,fileinfo/id,39/

- dip 1.31 : https://www.sinsofasolarempire.de/component/option,com_remository/Itemid,93/func,fileinfo/id,44/

Since yesterday, dip is at 1.33 ... so, it is very possible that your version buy on Impulse is already 1.33 ... and you will not find ( yet ) any fan made European localization on the internet...

PS : Mon premier language est le francais ( deuxieme est dutch, troisieme est English )... si tu ne comprend pas ma reponse, tu peut m'envoyer un PM en Francais...

Funny since the majority of native English speakers know only English... on the other hand, it is not rare for non native english speaker to be able to use 2-3-4 or more language... the language with the most native speaker is Mandarin, followed by spanish, English taking only the third position ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_number_of_native_speakers ) ... if you wish sell your game worldwide ( and make a lot more money ), it is best to have some localization file...

True, but I don't see this game in any of those languages (I'm only aware of a french version).  Maybe it is, maybe it isn't, I don't know.  Either way put, the traditional "international" version of games default to english.

Thank you... not really Stardock job since customer have almost pay double price to Kalipso for these service... pity that online translation are far from perfect...

There is maybe a way to avoid similar problem with Rebellion... maybe form a mod group for localization... these mod group will receive the english.str for Rebellion at a early stage and begin translation... so, when the Rebellion will be released, there will be localization made by the communauty who can be included in the release...

For video and sound, it will be very difficult since good voice actor are rare...

Seem a crazy idea but it work with opensource software and i don't see why it cannot work with commercial software, specially when sins have a great modders community...

I can help for the French version, i can maybe contact again Freecry from the transgallactique forum since he is one of the guy who have work with Kalipso for the release of the original sins in 2008...

Will be great to have people for a Spanish version... after all, Spanish is almost the second language from the US, and the main language from Spain, and a lot of south-central America country...

Well, from your Dip 1.33 post, it seem that some change was introduce in the english.str ... Mini-dump with near translated version are rare but not the famous "string not found"...

But these somehow older version ( but newer that version on the original Trinity DVD ) can be used like reference for create a full updated version... will have more work for find the few line who have change that make the translation itself...

Well, I figured out how to script conversion of all my mod's string entries to German or French  

~ 4,000 entries converted to German today... I'll do French after I confirm the German stuff all works good.

It have made it... just updated now... and it is not so bad, seem that Google ( and you ) have made a very good job...

Have already spread the word on a few french fan forum... once i remember my loggin/password for the german forum, i will spread the word there too...

Many thanks

Well... maybe correct. However, given it was very unlikely this would have occurred without the automated translation I feel it is an acceptable compromise.

Also, I considered it an interesting challenge to solve as well... so win-win.

Absolutely. He may find he enjoys my work

Can I have German and French originals done? I will include with reference files. Not sure if I can just backport the FRench.str to Ent or Org. Probaly works but includes content not paid for.

I can include a ReadMe in the String folder with instruction and maybe Thoumsin can write me other language instructions 

And/Or I can put the files on the weebly with instructions