Automatically turn translations like this:
key en-US zh-CN zh-TW ja
file file 文件 檔案 ファイル
edit edit 编辑 編輯 編集
print print 打印 列印 印刷
into this:
out
├── values-en-rUS
│ └── strings.xml
├── values-ja
│ └── strings.xml
├── values-zh-rCN
│ └── strings.xml
└── values-zh-rTW
└── strings.xml
which can be fed into an Android project directly.
Contents of the xml files generated:
out/values-en-rUS/strings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="file">"file"</string>
<string name="edit">"edit"</string>
<string name="print">"print"</string>
</resources>
out/values-ja/strings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="file">"ファイル"</string>
<string name="edit">"編集"</string>
<string name="print">"印刷"</string>
</resources>
out/values-zh-rCN/strings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="file">"文件"</string>
<string name="edit">"编辑"</string>
<string name="print">"打印"</string>
</resources>
out/values-zh-rTW/strings.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<resources>
<string name="file">"檔案"</string>
<string name="edit">"編輯"</string>
<string name="print">"列印"</string>
</resources>
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Prepare the translation file in tsv format. (You can use Google Sheets and its handy
GOOGLETRANSLATE()function to generate translations automatically, like this) -
Build. javac Convert.java
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Run java Convert
Structure:
| this cell is ignored | lang-a | lang-b | lang-c | ...
| key-1 | val-a-1 | val-b-1 | val-c-1 | ...
| key-2 | val-a-2 | val-b-2 | val-c-2 | ...
...
lang-* is in <language>[-<region>]. <language> is a 2-letter code defined in ISO 639-1. <region> is a 2-letter code defined in ISO 3166-1.
Note that <region> IS NOT preceded by 'r'.