Re: [mochikit] MochiKit.I18n -- proposed new module for internationalization
This is pretty cool, something I always imagined that I might do if I were doing this kind of localization. We've only done en and zh at Mochi, so haven't needed anything outside of the system format. On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Per Cederberg cederb...@gmail.com wrote: Since I found the MochiKit.Format.formatLocale() function too limited, I hacked up a new MochiKit.I18n module: https://github.com/cederberg/mochikit/blob/i18n/MochiKit/I18n.js It is backwards compatible and adds locales for most languages on earth (data derived from Wikipedia and Google Closure sources). At the moment it only contains numeric formatting information, but can be extended with currency and datetime formatting information if needed. My intention is to include this in the default MochiKit 1.4 tree and update the MochiKit.Text module to properly support the number formatting specified in these locales (some are not currently supported). Please let me know if you have any issues with this. Cheers, /Per PS. Pasting in the source rst docs below to give a clue as to how it is supposed to work. Name MochiKit.I18n - internationalization, localization and globalization Synopsis :: assert( locale().decimal == . ); assert( locale(sv_SE).decimal == , ); Description === This module contains numeric localization information for most languages and regions on earth. Actual text formatting lives in other modules (such as :mochiref:`MochiKit.Text`). Dependencies - :mochiref:`MochiKit.Base` Overview Locale Names MochiKit uses IETF language codes [1] to identify a locale, e.g. ``en_US``. The locale database also supports the use of previously unknown locale identifiers by creating a new locale based on the language code or the default locale. A number of built-in locale identifiers are also supported: +-+-+ | Language | Description | +=+=+ | ``system`` | The built-in system locale. It is identical to a | | | ``en_US`` locale for backward compatibility. | +-+-+ | ``user`` | The user locale, as reported by the browser. This | | | points to a specific language locale (or the | | | ``system`` locale.) | +-+-+ | ``default`` | The default locale, used when no language code is | | | provided. This points to the ``system`` locale by | | | default. | +-+-+ The default locale is modified by accessing the ``MochiKit.I18n.LOCALE`` cache of resolved locale objects: :: MochiKit.I18n.LOCALE[default] = locale(user); Locale Objects -- The locale objects returned by :mochiref:`locale()` and stored in the ``MochiKit.I18n.LOCALE`` cache all have the following properties (some inherited through the prototype chain): +-+-+ | Name | Description | +=+=+ | ``decimal`` | The decimal dot character. | +-+-+ | ``separator`` | The thousands grouping character. | +-+-+ | ``separatorGroups`` | The size of thousands groups (from | | | right to left). Repeats when exhausted. | +-+-+ | ``percent`` | The percent character. | +-+-+ | ``permille`` | The permille character. | +-+-+ | ``plus`` | The plus sign character. | +-+-+ | ``minus`` | The minus sign character. | +-+-+ | ``signAtEnd`` | The boolean sign at end of string flag. | +-+-+ | ``infinity`` | The infinity character. | +-+-+ API Reference = Functions -
[mochikit] MochiKit.I18n -- proposed new module for internationalization
Since I found the MochiKit.Format.formatLocale() function too limited, I hacked up a new MochiKit.I18n module: https://github.com/cederberg/mochikit/blob/i18n/MochiKit/I18n.js It is backwards compatible and adds locales for most languages on earth (data derived from Wikipedia and Google Closure sources). At the moment it only contains numeric formatting information, but can be extended with currency and datetime formatting information if needed. My intention is to include this in the default MochiKit 1.4 tree and update the MochiKit.Text module to properly support the number formatting specified in these locales (some are not currently supported). Please let me know if you have any issues with this. Cheers, /Per PS. Pasting in the source rst docs below to give a clue as to how it is supposed to work. Name MochiKit.I18n - internationalization, localization and globalization Synopsis :: assert( locale().decimal == . ); assert( locale(sv_SE).decimal == , ); Description === This module contains numeric localization information for most languages and regions on earth. Actual text formatting lives in other modules (such as :mochiref:`MochiKit.Text`). Dependencies - :mochiref:`MochiKit.Base` Overview Locale Names MochiKit uses IETF language codes [1] to identify a locale, e.g. ``en_US``. The locale database also supports the use of previously unknown locale identifiers by creating a new locale based on the language code or the default locale. A number of built-in locale identifiers are also supported: +-+-+ | Language| Description | +=+=+ | ``system`` | The built-in system locale. It is identical to a| | | ``en_US`` locale for backward compatibility. | +-+-+ | ``user``| The user locale, as reported by the browser. This | | | points to a specific language locale (or the| | | ``system`` locale.) | +-+-+ | ``default`` | The default locale, used when no language code is | | | provided. This points to the ``system`` locale by | | | default.| +-+-+ The default locale is modified by accessing the ``MochiKit.I18n.LOCALE`` cache of resolved locale objects: :: MochiKit.I18n.LOCALE[default] = locale(user); Locale Objects -- The locale objects returned by :mochiref:`locale()` and stored in the ``MochiKit.I18n.LOCALE`` cache all have the following properties (some inherited through the prototype chain): +-+-+ | Name| Description | +=+=+ | ``decimal`` | The decimal dot character. | +-+-+ | ``separator`` | The thousands grouping character. | +-+-+ | ``separatorGroups`` | The size of thousands groups (from | | | right to left). Repeats when exhausted. | +-+-+ | ``percent`` | The percent character. | +-+-+ | ``permille``| The permille character. | +-+-+ | ``plus``| The plus sign character.| +-+-+ | ``minus`` | The minus sign character. | +-+-+ | ``signAtEnd`` | The boolean sign at end of string flag. | +-+-+ | ``infinity``| The infinity character. | +-+-+ API Reference = Functions - :mochidef:`locale(spec=default)`: Returns the locale object corresponding to ``spec``. The locale object returned contains formatting and localization information that is used when displaying data in non-English languages (see description above for details). Note that the cached locale database entry is
