Use php-intl for translation instead of built in Laravel's translator

[pklebba]

My friend made that package for Laravel for better language support than built in solution: https://github.com/Skysplit/laravel5-intl-translation

You can say, why? So, currently it is impossible to properly format plural rules in many languages, as in some languages' rules are not just ranges, but often require modulo operations etc. MessageFormatter allows it.

For example, let's use Polish word "miesiąc" (means "month"):

• one - 1 - Miesiąc
• few - 2~4, 22~24, 32~34, 42~44, 52~54, 62, 102, 1002, … - Miesiące
• many - 0, 5~19, 100, 1000, 10000, 100000, 1000000, … - Miesięcy
• other - 0.0~1.5, 10.0, 100.0, 1000.0, 10000.0, 100000.0, 1000000.0, … - Miesiąca

More here: http://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/latest/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html#pl

It's not possible to correctly implement that word in built in Laravel's package. In English language it's not a problem, because here we have just two options: month and months. But there's a problem for Polish, Russian, Arabic and many more. That's why I think it should be taken into consideration.

He's working on it in official Laravel repository: https://github.com/laravel/internals/issues/160

[euantorano]

Hi,

I wasn't aware of these problems in the standard Lang package, if it doesn't support those required features, we will have to look elsewhere for definite. Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

[pklebba]

That's great, thanks! 😄