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3430 :: Internationally accessible Nim applications

[2017-12-24T01:25:56+01:00]

twetzel59 (orginal) [2017-12-24T01:25:56+01:00] view original

Hello,

I have a question about internationalization in Nim.

Let's say I have a program that has a user interface with text. How might I handle translations of the strings into other languages? I saw this thread, but it is a bit old.

What are your recommendations for supporting translations and multiple languages?

mashingan (orginal) [2017-12-24T09:23:32+01:00] view original

Is it perhaps about working with unicode? If so there's unicode module https://nim-lang.org/docs/unicode.html

mratsim (orginal) [2017-12-24T10:59:26+01:00] view original
If you're looking at the tooling you have multiple possibilities depending on the scale of your project:
The usual .po files + gettext.

Using l10ns

Building your own i18n solution with NimYaml for example (which your translators will appreciate compared to JSON)

twetzel59 (orginal) [2017-12-25T14:27:08+01:00] view original

Thanks! Unicode is of course an issue with some languages but I'm not too worried about string processing at this point. My main concern is handling translation of hardcoded strings into Spanish. I'll probably go with NimYaml.