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

[Lionel Laské]

Okay. Tell me once you're done.

Regards.

          Lionel

Le mer. 19 mai 2021 à 00:47, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> I have been disappointed by webL10n from Day One. I have a bunch of
> supporting scripts but it is not very expressive and as you note,
> having a huge ini file is not optimal, I was planning to explore
> options this summer as part of Music Blocks 4.0. But had not started
> researching yet.
>
> -walter
>
> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 4:08 PM Lionel Laské <lionel.laske at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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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> Walter Bender
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