Localization

jason.mor..

in CanJS • 1 year ago

Does CanJS/JSMVC have a standard way of implementing localization? I have not seen anything in the documentation. There are some posts on the topic, but nothing definitive.

If no standard way exists, can the Bitovi team recommend a solution?

Replies(6)

daff

Re: Localization

1 year ago

Not really unfortunately. The main issue was always what JavaScriptMVC and now CanJS and DoneJS should do in particular to support localization. There already are a bunch of libraries out there and it is easy to drop them in (and e.g. just use things like <%= _T('my.string') %> in your EJS views).

I usually recommend jQuery.Globalize (which, despite the name, now also works without jQuery), but it depends a lot on what you need. jQuery.Globalize worked well for me on a project that needed French and English but it will be a lot harder when having to e.g. support languages that read from right to left and things like that.

jason.mor..

Re: Localization

1 year ago

If an app is comprised of several smaller widgets, how would the message catalogs be stored? A file per widget?

And then how are they loaded? As the first thing the widget does?

daff

Re: Localization

1 year ago

Personally I think message catalogs should be stored globally because it is likely that someone other than the developer might touch it.

What I did was request the entire JSON message catalog even before the DOM was ready and then, when both DOM ready fired and the request returned, start loading the application.

Gilmesh

Re: Localization

1 year ago

I used jQuery i18N properties.

Pros

It is simple to use.
Properties files are compatible with Java.

Cons

need jQuery
I did not need/have time enough to look how to

support ltr languages with this plugin
explode the data files among widgets in the app => but I really think it is the correct way of storing theses files. If non developers do the translation, they may work on a tree structure (potentially cleaned up from anything else than properties files). Otherwise, much put everything in a huge unique file...

Juri

Re: Localization

4 months ago

@Gilmesh: Did you find any suitable and easy way to distribute the i18n files throughout the app (widget) folder structure?? I'm using jQuery i18n as well and I'm currently looking into how to organize it best.