[Sugar-devel] Handling of localization in Sugarizer/MusicBlocks

[Lionel Laské]

Hi all,

>From the beginning, Sugarizer relies on the webL10n library [1] to handle
localization from Javascript.
This library uses a .INI file where localizations are stored and loaded
during page initialization.
Sounds like MusicBlocks use the same library too.

I'm thinking to change localization library in a future version of
Sugarizer because:

   - webL10n has been deprecated since 2015
   - a pivot file format (PO Gettext) is used to be able to localize
   strings in the Sugarizer translate platform [2]. It made the update process
   complex (INI to PO then PO to INI).
   - all language localizations are located in a huge file (260kb) that is
   not good for performance reasons.

I've done a short study here [3] to test another localization library
i18next [4].
i18next is independent from any Javascript framework, largely supported and
easy to use.

So I'm thinking to switch to i18next.
Is there any plan to change the localization library in MusicBlocks?
Do you experience another localization library?

Regards.

               Lionel

[1] https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/webL10n
[2] https://translate.sugarizer.org
[3] https://github.com/llaske/l10nstudy
[4] https://github.com/i18next/i18next
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