L20n/Features/Multilocale resources

goals

• create index resource files that load proper resource files per locale
• store source entities that were used to localize the entities in order to enable tools to recognize outdated localization.

example

if(@locale="en-US") {
  @import("path/to/fr/resource")
}

if(@locale="en-GB') {
  @import("path/to/en/resource")
}

In this case, we keep a list of imports that depend on the locale being used.

for 3way merge

<phone "Telefon">
<address "Adres">

if (@locale="en-GB"): {
  <phone "Phone">
  <address "Address">
}

In this case we store entities that have been used as a base for translation. This allows us to compare the source entity from en-US locale with the source entity from translated locale and identify entities that were translated against old version of the string.

status

We decided to reuse if with @import for this goal.

if (@locale="fr") {
  <entity "value">
}

and

if (@locale="fr") {
  import("path/to/resource")
}

For the latter purpose we're leaning toward storing some sort of .orig file that contains source entities for the 3way-merge.

• gandalf - accepted
• stas - accepted
• pike - ?