https://github.com/loctools/go-l10n

Lightweight yet powerful continuous localization solution for Go, based on Serge and Plurr.
https://github.com/loctools/go-l10n

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Lightweight yet powerful continuous localization solution for Go, based on Serge and Plurr.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/loctools/go-l10n
• Owner: loctools
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-10-02T06:04:04.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-10-31T18:53:33.000Z (about 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-06-18T23:10:08.191Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: continuous-localization, golang, i18n, l10n, localization, plurr, serge
• Language: Go
• Size: 14.6 KB
• Stars: 32
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 5
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: MIT-LICENSE.txt

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About go-l10n

=============

Lightweight yet powerful continuous localization solution for Go, based on

[Serge](https://serge.io/) and [Plurr](https://github.com/iafan/Plurr).

Advantages

----------

 1. Provides solution for both web-based and desktop applications.

 2. Can be used with different resource file formats, thanks to Serge.

    Currently offers the support for JSON resource files and

    string maps in the native .go format. Both formats support

    developer comments for translators to get extra context.

 3. Supports named placeholders, plurals and conditionals via

    Plurr-formatted strings (see the

    [interactive demo](http://iafan.github.io/plurr-demo/)).

 4. Support for translation and formatting functions in `html/template`

    and `text/template`.

 5. For web applications, an ability to auto-detect the best language

    from the browser, and to force the language using a cookie or

    a query string parameter.

 6. Comes with ready-to-use Serge configuration files to allow for

    seamless continuous localization process (see

    [examples](https://github.com/iafan/go-l10n/tree/master/examples/)).

 7. Supports pseudotranslations out of the box. Pseudotranslation is a way

    to "translate" your application by applying some algorithm to each

    source string; it is useful to test if your application looks good

    with other locales without waiting for actual translations.

 7. The code is split into small packages to minimize external dependencies.

Example Code

------------

There are two example projects that showcase approaches to localizing

[web applications](https://github.com/iafan/go-l10n/tree/master/examples/web/) and

[desktop applications](https://github.com/iafan/go-l10n/tree/master/examples/desktop/).

Below is a condensed example to illustrate the typical usage.

`strings.go` (master resource file):

```go

package main

func init() {

    locpool.Resources["en"] = map[string]string{

        // Page title

        "Hello": "Hello!",

        // {N} is the number of messages

        "YouHaveNMessages": "You have {N} {N_PLURAL:message|messages}",

    }

}

```

`strings-ru.go` (localized resource file):

```go

package main

func init() {

    locpool.Resources["ru"] = map[string]string{

        // Page title

        "Hello": "Здравствуйте!",

        // {N} is the number of messages

        "YouHaveNMessages": "У вас {N} {N_PLURAL:сообщение|сообщения|сообщений}",

    }

}

```

Code:

```go

package main

import (

    "github.com/iafan/Plurr/go/plurr"

    "github.com/iafan/go-l10n/loc"

)

// Create a global localization pool which will be populated

// by resource files; use English as a default (fallback) language

var locpool = loc.NewPool("en")

func main() {

  // Get Russian localization context

  lc := locpool.GetContext("ru")

  // Get translation by key name:

  name := lc.Tr("Hello")

  // get translation by key name, then format it using Plurr:

  hello := lc.Format("YouHaveNMessages", plurr.Params{"N": 5})

  ...

}

```