i18n and L10n in Node.js

Kai

livdea.com

• Resource file support• View template support• Language detection

but we are greedy….No using external resource, nor serviceRecently UpdateDocumentation

i18n-node• has all we need!• gets updated!!• is documented!!!!!!

我懂正體中文

{‘zh-tw’}

{‘我也說中文’ }

我也說中文

So…it’s like

Or….

mitä kuuluu

{‘fi’}

{‘How are you?’}

How are you?

Oops…..

That’s it. Let’s do it.

Build your ownhttps://github.com/kaijan/nodejs-taiwan-i18n.git

Installation and Configuration1. Installation

$: npm install i18n

2. Requirevar i18n = require("i18n");

3. app.configure()app.use(i18n.init); //language detection

4. i18n configurationi18n.configure({ locales:['zh-tw','zh'] // prefered language, and resource file});

Installation and Configuration

5. For viewapp.locals({ __i: i18n.__ // so we can use i18n method in view});

6. Resource filei18n module will create a locales folder within the directory

where you execute your node server

app.use(i18n.init)? Language detection

Loot at http request headersrequest['headers']['accept-language']zh-TW,zh;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.6,en;q=0.4

would mean: "I prefer Chinese-Taiwan, but will accept United States English and other types of English." (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html)

guessLanguage(request)

Easy to code

Code in node.jsconsole.log(i18n.__('HelloWorld'));console.log(i18n.__('HelloGroup', 'Node.js', 30));

Code in view (using Jade)div #{__i('HelloWorld')}div #{__i('HelloGroup', 'node.js', 30)}

Hi, TaiwanWe need zh-TW rather than zh(Chinese)in i18n.js, add the region detection

request.language_region = request.language ;

if (request.region){ request.language_region = request.language_region +'-'+ request.region;}

i18n.setLocale(request, request.language_region);

Can’t switch language? Because defaultLocale is changed, but we can fix it

if (locales[target_locale]) { request.locale = target_locale; defaultLocale = target_locale; } else { defaultLocale = 'en'; request.locale = defaultLocale; }

Hi, Mr. Trouble

Built on Node.js, MongodDB, Nginx and EC2