Translate strings of the wizard

[plata]

We could use http://www.localeplanet.com/ and https://docs.transifex.com/formats/json.

[plata]

Maybe:

• jsgettext (doesn't seem to work because it requires document which does not exist in Nashorn)
• i18next, see i18next/i18next#931

[plata]

Another possibility would be to call tr directly:

Packages.org.phoenicis.configuration.localisation.Localisation.tr("translation test.")

This is working but I'm not sure how we can get the text into our .pot and .po files (especially for user repositories).

[qparis]

Called tr directly makes more sense. The analysis of the scripts is another problem we can handle quite easily

[plata]

If we do that, all strings have to be in the properties file which is generated with mvn gettext:dist. I don't see how this should happen for user repositories.

[qparis]

The pot files should not necessarily be generated by maven. We could imagine another process that could generate all the translations from all our git repositories and uploading them to a translation platform. This is the way it is done in POLv4

[plata]

Sure. But that's still not enough. For example, I could provide my own scripts in a separate repository. In this case, I would not have any chance to translate those.

[qparis]

You could add your translation to the main repository, it should work fine

[plata]

Doesn't that defeat the whole point of custom repositories? I might not even want my strings to be available publicly (e.g. in a company environment). With a solution which loads a json with the translations at runtime, I could provide my own translation file for my repository.

[qparis]

Correct

[qparis]

Then we should also allow to include po files in a repository

[plata]

Yes.

[plata]

The problem with the solution from localeplanet is that it seems to do only a simple mapping. So no plural forms etc.

[plata]

I managed to get i18next running after changing the i18next.js a little bit. So I guess we could use that. However, there's still another problem: How do we translate the .json files?

[plata]

I opened a PR (PlayOnLinux/POL-POM-5#870) to solve the .json translation).

[plata]

Fixed.