This tool can be used to automate i18n translations with google translate. It is primarily used for creating translation templates in csv so that translators can edit the files in numbers/excel.
Simply use npm to install the package globally
# Install global so it can be called from anywhere
$ npm install -g xlf-translator
Create a tranlator.config.json
file in the root of your project, make sure the messages.xlf is provided in the config file. Then run it once.
This will generate all the translations
as message.(language-code).xlf
and a message.(language-code).csv
in the output directory (provided in the config file).
Now you can edit the translations in the csv (Run it again for updates).
// tranlator.config.json
{
"source": "/src/locale/messages.xlf",
"outputPath": "/src/locale",
"fromLanguage": "en",
"toLanguage": [
"nl",
"en",
"de",
"fr"
]
}
In the terminal we can enter
$ translate
This starts the google translator (if not yet exist). It will create the translation files in the messages directory.
In translations/csv/ we can edit the files as csv. When done hit translate
again for reindexing.
Example language codes
'auto': 'Automatic'``
'af': 'Afrikaans'
'sq': 'Albanian'
'am': 'Amharic'
'ar': 'Arabic'
'hy': 'Armenian'
'az': 'Azerbaijani'
'eu': 'Basque'
'be': 'Belarusian'
'bn': 'Bengali'
'bs': 'Bosnian'
'bg': 'Bulgarian'
'ca': 'Catalan'
'ceb': 'Cebuano'
'ny': 'Chichewa'
'zh-cn': 'Chinese Simplified'
'zh-tw': 'Chinese Traditional'
'co': 'Corsican'
'hr': 'Croatian'
'cs': 'Czech'
'da': 'Danish'
'nl': 'Dutch'
'en': 'English'
'eo': 'Esperanto'
'et': 'Estonian'
'tl': 'Filipino'
'fi': 'Finnish'
'fr': 'French'
'fy': 'Frisian'
'gl': 'Galician'
'ka': 'Georgian'
'de': 'German'
'el': 'Greek'
'gu': 'Gujarati'
'ht': 'Haitian Creole'
'ha': 'Hausa'
'haw': 'Hawaiian'
'iw': 'Hebrew'
'hi': 'Hindi'
'hmn': 'Hmong'
'hu': 'Hungarian'
'is': 'Icelandic'
'ig': 'Igbo'
'id': 'Indonesian'
'ga': 'Irish'
'it': 'Italian'
'ja': 'Japanese'
'jw': 'Javanese'
'kn': 'Kannada'
'kk': 'Kazakh'
'km': 'Khmer'
'ko': 'Korean'
'ku': 'Kurdish (Kurmanji)'
'ky': 'Kyrgyz'
'lo': 'Lao'
'la': 'Latin'
'lv': 'Latvian'
'lt': 'Lithuanian'
'lb': 'Luxembourgish'
'mk': 'Macedonian'
'mg': 'Malagasy'
'ms': 'Malay'
'ml': 'Malayalam'
'mt': 'Maltese'
'mi': 'Maori'
'mr': 'Marathi'
'mn': 'Mongolian'
'my': 'Myanmar (Burmese)'
'ne': 'Nepali'
'no': 'Norwegian'
'ps': 'Pashto'
'fa': 'Persian'
'pl': 'Polish'
'pt': 'Portuguese'
'ma': 'Punjabi'
'ro': 'Romanian'
'ru': 'Russian'
'sm': 'Samoan'
'gd': 'Scots Gaelic'
'sr': 'Serbian'
'st': 'Sesotho'
'sn': 'Shona'
'sd': 'Sindhi'
'si': 'Sinhala'
'sk': 'Slovak',
'sl': 'Slovenian'
'so': 'Somali'
'es': 'Spanish'
'su': 'Sundanese'
'sw': 'Swahili'
'sv': 'Swedish'
'tg': 'Tajik'
'ta': 'Tamil'
'te': 'Telugu'
'th': 'Thai'
'tr': 'Turkish'
'uk': 'Ukrainian'
'ur': 'Urdu'
'uz': 'Uzbek'
'vi': 'Vietnamese'
'cy': 'Welsh'
'xh': 'Xhosa'
'yi': 'Yiddish'
'yo': 'Yoruba'
'zu': 'Zulu'