Internationalization functions for LÖVE. We might rename it to something more interesting later.
It's just a Lua table.
Several real-world examples can be found here, in our LD33 entry.
return {
locale = "en",
base = "assets/sounds/en",
quotes = { "\"", "\"" }, -- NYI, but planned. Several languages use different quotes.
strings = {
["main/play"] = { text = "Play", audio = "play.ogg" },
["main/options"] = { text = "Options" },
-- etc
}
}local lang = require "i18n"
-- load all your language files. the filenames are of no significance.
lang:load("languages/en.lua")
-- set default locale if a string is not available in the current one.
-- Note: will not return audio for fallback language (that would be really weird).
lang:set_fallback("en")
-- set locale to source data from
lang:set_locale("en")
-- translated string, path to audio, and whether the string is from fallback.
-- can also be written as lang:get("key")
lang "main/play" -- => "Play", "assets/sounds/en/play.ogg", false