Translation of the mod-ui

[atilacamurca]

What do you people suggest for a translation process, by wiki or by, let's say, a folder in the project like pt_BR/README?

I would like to contribute but before I want your opinion about that.

I'm from Brasil, I would like to translate for portuguese.

[odurc]

Hello Átila.

Thank you for your effort to try helping but I should say we've no plans to keep translations of the installing instructions in other languages than English.

[atilacamurca]

How about the UI itself, any plans to enable translation?

[odurc]

No plans as well. We probably should to use an internationalization framework/library before start doing translations. If you are interested to help, maybe you could validate or improve the text (in English) of the instructions. It would be very appreciated.

[atilacamurca]

Great! I really miss some links and tips to help the install process.

[boomshop]

It's quite easy to implement, no need for another lib. Use labels like
e.g.:

Setup language files (which can be loaded in whatever way) like e.g.:

languages/en.js

---

if (!dictionary)
dictionary = {}
dictionary["en"] = {
"whatever_expression" : "Whatever Expression"
}

---

And add a language selector in your application like e.g.:

this.default_language : "en";
this.set_language : function (lang) {
if (dictionary.hasOwnProperty(lang))
this.language = lang;
else
throw "Invalid language '" + lang + "'";
var def = this.default_language;
$("[lang]").each( function () {
var t = $(this);
var l = t.attr("lang");
t.text(dictionary[lang][l]
|| dictionary[def][l]
|| l);
});
}

Or: instead of throwing load the language asynchronously and call
this.set_language(lang) again.

To make things easy for translators:

$("[lang]").each( function () { $(this).text($(this).attr("lang")); });

Best, Markus.

Update: shall I add it to my branch these days?

[atilacamurca]

There's a great lib for this called Jed.

Has a great documentation, it's similar to other known libraries (has _(value), support for plurals, etc).

I think it's worth to consider.

[odurc]

Hey Markus. Better to ask @brunogola and @falkTX they are working in the mod-ui code.