I would suggest using the same approach that is used within
internationalized applications. Look up the strings based on the
locale. It would look something like this:
if [ -f ${DIRECTORY}/script-strings-${LANG}.sh ]; then
. ${DIRECTORY}/script-strings-${LANG}.sh
else
. ${DIRECTORY}/script-strings-${DEFAULT_LANG}.sh
fi
# ...
grep $GREP_STRING_1 files
You will still need to localize the script for each language, but you
have moved the localization out of the script logic.
Amarendra Godbole wrote:
So my question is: how to deal with such scenarios? An immediate
solution that strikes me is to use the if loop, something like
this: (pseudocode)
if LANG = jp; then
grep '<<japanese string>>'
else
grep '<<english string>>'
endif
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