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kurtsson / jekyll-multiple-languages-plugin

I18n support for Jekyll and Octopress
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How to have default language inline? #133

Open iBobik opened 5 years ago

iBobik commented 5 years ago

Currently html documents are not well readable because all content is hidden behind keys: {% t some.key %}

How to move default language to a template files and only other languages have in _i18n/.yml? {% t Real sentence what will be printed if rendering default language. %} in _i18n/.yml the sentende in default language is used as a key:

"Real sentence what will be printed if rendering default language.": "Translated sentence here"
shushugah commented 5 years ago

Hello @iBobik,

Currently, if the default language changes, it's a matter of switching order of the languages config key. This would add extra work.

While I empathize as a developer the challenge of understanding what translation keys are doing, the default language isn't necessarily going to be the same as the translation keys themselves. For example, I work in Germany, so the default language for customers/website is German, while internally we use English for the key value of the translations.

{% t customer.purchase.color %} is descriptive.