Localization support

[testzcrypto]

Please add localization support as .json or .pot/.po files. I will configure for you the localization project as we did it for https://crowdin.com/project/esteem

[aaroncox]

That looks great! I'll get started on this.

[clayop]

Great idea. Please be advised that some languages have different grammar orders from English. So translators can deal with full messages.

[testzcrypto]

Crowdin open source project is ready: https://crowdin.com/project/vessel

[aaroncox]

I started researching how to implement it properly today, hopefully I'll have some progress on it soon.

[testzcrypto]

Excellent, here the some examples:
tt() - https://github.com/steemit/condenser/tree/1070-i18n-refactoring
gettext .pot/.po files - https://github.com/byteball/byteball
.json localization files - https://github.com/eSteemApp/esteem

[aaroncox]

I've got the initial code started, but I need to go through the rest of the wallet and convert everything to FormattedMessages.

Does this look like an acceptable format?

https://github.com/aaroncox/vessel/blob/b19e6072935f0688da8d5ff758d429f57edb909d/app/locales/en.json

There will be one json file for each language, starting with en.json.

[testzcrypto]

Excellent! But better to use structure like this (where strings grouped by sections):

{
  "general": {
    "name": "Vessel",
    "height": "Height"
  },
  "menu": {
    "overview": "Overview",
    "send": "Send",
    "vesting": "Vesting",
    "accounts": "Accounts",
    "settings": "Settings"
  }
}

How this looks in Crowdin:

[aaroncox]

I'll have to figure out how to do that - the library I'm using right now uses the dot notation to delineate namespaces for adding to the app.

[testzcrypto]

You need to make and keep updated only en.json, all other languages files (based on en.json) Crowdin will create and sync update for you.

[testzcrypto]

Dot notation it's exactly now this should be, but this dot notation should count the sections, so FormattedMessages("menu.settings") will return right result from json:

{
  "menu": {
    "overview": "Overview",
    "settings": "Settings"
  }
}

[testzcrypto]

Also please check if library supports parameterized strings and allow you to make something like FormattedMessages("menu.transfer_successful", 1.0, "STEEM", account)

{
  "menu": {
    "overview": "Overview",
    "transfer_successful": "The {amount} {asset} successfully transferred to {account}"
  }
}

[aaroncox]

It does support parameterized strings. For reference, it's the react-intl library.

[aaroncox]

Just ran a test, the parameterized strings come out as such currently:

{
    "welcome": "Hello {name}, you have {unreadCount, number} {unreadCount, plural, one {message} other {messages}}",
}

[adrai]

if there is some interest: there is an alternative to react-intl => react-i18next

[testzcrypto]

@aaroncox Any news about localization?

[aaroncox]

@testzcrypto I've made some progress on learning how to implement it (on chainBB, not Vessel) that I hope to get implemented in Vessel at some point.

[testzcrypto]

@aaroncox Any progress with localization support? Now when Vessel become very popular Steem wallet this issue become very important ;-)

[aaroncox]

@testzcrypto been in an epic battle with just keeping people connected to steemd, no progress to report at this time.

[testzcrypto]

@aaroncox I understand, and will wait for news in localization support when it's become visible. Thanks for great job!