minimizing the need for localization files

[oak93]

hi everyone,

we need to support 4 languages in our application.
you can see our locales list here:

locales: [
      'en-us',
      'en-es',
      'en-de',
      'en-mx',
      'en-co',
      'es-es',
      'es-de',
      'es-mx',
      'es-co',
      'de-es',
      'de-de',
      'de-mx',
      'de-co',
      'mx-es',
      'mx-de',
      'mx-mx',
      'mx-co'
    ]

this creates many folders inside our public/locales folder.

the language will be the same for all countries. for example, de-es will have the same language as de-co.

I have tried to use localeSubpaths to solve this having lots of folder issues but it did not work.
what I want to have is, I want to have only one folder for each language and serve it for all locales.
for example serve de folder inside of the public/locales for each de-de, de-co, de-es, de-mx

// DID NOT WORK

localeSubpaths: {
      'en-us': 'en',
      'en-es': 'en',
      'en-ds': 'en',
      'en-mx': 'en',
      'en-co': 'en',
      'es-es': 'es',
      'es-de': 'es',
      'es-mx': 'es',
      'es-co': 'es',
      'de-es': 'de',
      'de-de': 'de',
      'de-mx': 'de',
      'de-co': 'de',
      'mx-es': 'mx',
      'mx-de': 'mx',
      'mx-mx': 'mx',
      'mx-co': 'mx'
    },

how can I achieve this?
thanks for helping

[chrilis]

Hi @oak93, this should be possible with Fallback locales. Especially nonExplicitSupportedLngs might be what you are looking for.