This package offers translations for accounts-base, accounts-passwords, accounts-entry, accounts-templates-core and billing. Contributions for other packages are welcome. We try to translate only messages that might pop up at a users screen as developers are expected to understand English errors anyway.
Translations are currently available for Arabic, Catalan, Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Hong Kong), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estoninan, Farsi, Finish, French, French (Canada), German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brasil), Portugues (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (South America), Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.
The second generation of meteor-accounts-t9n is able to run with npm alone. This means it can even be used with plain Node.js applications, not only within Meteor, see in ./examples/npm how this could work.
When using npm the translation files will no longer be eagerly loaded. Several people asked for this feature to safe bandwidth and it is possible now, this closes #161.
To make it work with npm the files have been translated to JavaScript, so if you use CoffeeScript you can require from the main directory and if you use JavaScript you would import/require from build.
These examples show different use cases:
- meteorPackage: This is way it has been used in former versions as a meteor package.
- meteorNpm: Use t9n as npm package within Meteor.
meteor add softwarerero:accounts-t9n
Off course one can easily add translations for applications. By putting a file like myapp.es in a folder under lib translations can be used on the client and on the server. Example:
es =
meteor: "meteoro"
T9n.map "es", esT9n.setLanguage("es")
T9n.get(code)
Examples:
T9n.get('name');T9n.get('store.purchase');T9n.get('error.accounts.User not found');
{{t9n code}}
{{t9n code parameter1='value'}}
Example: {{t9n "store.purchase"}}.
If a translation is not found the key is displayed. To spot not translated keys a prefix and a postfix can surround the key, they default to ">" and "<" so a you would see ">nonExistantKey<". You can change the pre- and postfix:
T9n.missingPrefix = ">"
T9n.missingPostfix = "<"
If you use get you can also suppress printing of the prefix and postfix if you set the second parameter to false (it defaults to true).
T9n.get code, false
Optionally named parameters can be used, naming them allows for repetition.
T9n.get code, true, args
Example:
If you define a string in your language file like
'pun': '@{subject} @{predicate} @{adverb} @{object}. Frische @{object} @{predicate} @{subject}.'
and have an object like
args =
subject: "Fischer's Fritz"
predicate: 'fischt'
object: 'Fische'
adverb: 'frische'
you could call
T9n.get 'pun', true, args
and that should give you
'Fischer's Fritz fischt frische Fische. Frische Fische fischt Fischer's Fritz.'
You must specify the second argument for prefix/postfix too, I am sorry.
T9n.map language, yourMap
Example:
T9n.map 'en',
hello: 'world'
store:
purchase: 'buy now'
basket: 'basket'
Tip: If you do not want to expose the reason why a login was unsuccessful for security reasons. They could overwrite the corresponding messages:
T9n.map 'en',
error:
accounts:
'User not found': 'Not for you'
'Incorrect password': 'Not for you'
T9n.language = 'en'
equals T9n.get('error.accounts.Incorrect password'), 'Incorrect password'
T9n.map 'en_GB', 'error.accounts.Incorrect password': 'You might want to enter a more correct version of your password'
T9n.language = 'en_GB'
equals T9n.get('error.accounts.Incorrect password'), 'You might want to enter a more correct version of your password'
Starting from (v.1.2.2) you can also do setLanguage('en-GB') and it gets converted internally to 'en_GB'. This is usefull for taking the language string directly from an http header.
#Language codes and contributions
| Code | Language | Contributor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| ar | Arabic | eahefnawy |
| ca | Catalan | ixdi |
| cs | Czech | mdede |
| da | Danish | LarsBuur |
| de | German | softwarerero, robhunt3r, sclausen, sarasate |
| el | Greek | mutil |
| es | Spanish | softwarerero, robhunt3r, PolGuixe, mortaldraw |
| es_formal | Formal spanish | softwarerero, robhunt3r, PolGuixe, mortaldraw |
| es_ES / es-ES | Spanish for Spain | maomorales, PolGuixe, mortaldraw |
| es_ES_formal / es-ES | Formal spanish for Spain | maomorales, PolGuixe, mortaldraw |
| et | Estonian | krishaamer |
| fa | Farsi | pajooh |
| fi | Finnish | xet7 |
| fr | French | djhi |
| fr_CA | French (Canada) | huguesbrunelle |
| he | Hebrew | noamyoungerm |
| hr | Croatian | tnedich |
| hu | Hungarian | balazskiss |
| id | Indonesian | hellstad |
| it | Italian | splendido |
| ja | Japanese | y-ich, exKAZUu |
| kh | Khmer | yuomtheara |
| ko | Korean | candicom, buo |
| nl | Dutch | willemx, louwers |
| no_NB / no-NB | Norwegian bokmål | kjetilge |
| pl | Polish | pwldp, wareczek, spiotr12 |
| pt | Portuguese (Brasil) | alanmeira, Tadeu Caldararo |
| pt_PT / pt-PT | Portuguese (Portugal) | tdbs |
| ro | Romanian | alexhuszar |
| ru | Russian | timtch |
| sk | Slovak | MartinBucko, aladinko |
| sl | Slovenian | alesvaupotic |
| sv | Swedish | timbrandin |
| th | Thai | Prawee |
| tr | Turkish | serkandurusoy |
| uk | Ukrainian | SkeLLLa |
| vi | Vietnamese | olragon |
| zh_cn / zh-CN | Simplified Chinese | laosb |
| zh_hk / zh-HK | Hong Kong Chinese | daveeel |
| zh_tw / zh-TW | Taiwan Chinese | victorleungtw |
Note: "xx" or "xx-XX" is the IETF language tag standard format.
If you have a need to reduce bandwidth you can specify which languages to send to the client by setting an environment variable like T9N_LANGUAGES='es,de'. Now only Spanish and German should go over the wire instead of all translations.
With the current package manager this does not work anymore. If you need that functionality delete ~/.meteor/packages/softwarerero_accounts-t9n and instead copy it directly into your project (you can go to myproject/packages and issue git clone https://github.com/softwarerero/meteor-accounts-t9n.git). Now it should work again.
This package is inspired by subhog's just-i18n and included this as a dependency before version 0.0.3. Sadly the all project versions before 0.0.17 where deleted from Atmosphere when they updated to the new Meteor package format.
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