Multiple fallback languages and region support

git-no commented 8 years ago

Simple approach via one translation file. Fallback use YAML standard methods.

Lib enhancements included
Example included
Documentation fix included

Anthony-Gaudino commented 8 years ago

Hi @git-no,

As I could understand you want to have a fallback to another language other than the default one and be able to use a single file to add all your translations.

Could you please explain about your needs and how do you use those features.

Do you need fallback of full language to another language and also fallback of parts of a language to another?

git-no commented 8 years ago

Starting position:

Having a website target to audience in multiple regions or languages.

Goal:

Get hight rankend in search machines in every target country, having a good SEO .
As less manually work as possible.

Requirement:

Jekyll support of multiple regions and languages.

Situation:

Google prefers and ranks websites higher with region country (en-UK) than with global languages (en). For more information see Googles recommendation Use hreflang for language and regional URLs

Simple approach:

<html lang="en">
http://www.domain.com/en/

Better SEO approach:

<html lang="en-GB">
http://www.domain.com/engb/

<html lang="en-CA">
http://www.domain.com/enca/

Solution:

Serving websites dedicated to region and language instead of just language.

Maintaining language files with flexible fallback. This is possible just with YAML, no ruby addon required.

Please look at my language.yaml example file within the pull request for more information. So with my example Jekyll and your language plugin would create websites /en/, /engb/, /enca/, /enus/, but the admin must only maintain the english language but can also override country specific terms (vacation vs. holiday).

joshcummingsdesign commented 5 years ago

@kurtsson @git-no Is this PR still valid? If so, I like the idea. If it's important to have this feature on the roadmap, I think we can improve upon the implementation a bit more. Either way, the README.md change can be merged.

joshcummingsdesign commented 5 years ago

@kurtsson #84 fixes README.md issue. @git-no Can you resolve the conflicts and we can then re-review?

joshcummingsdesign commented 5 years ago

@kurtsson This can be closed. @git-no Happy to review a new PR if need be.

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