ppl-i18n VS Fluent

> Translation and localization costs money

If you have a fan base, you can leverage it to get some amount of translation done. A lot of users are happy to help the product they like get better. Granted, the quality will not be as good as the quality you get with professional translators.

The article also did not talk about the actual the translation process, which in the case of a product that is released but keeps getting updates, is not trivial.

There are tools that exists, but I personally decided to build a workflow around git, with a python scripts that generates a status of all the translations: https://github.com/jyaif/ppl-i18n#status

The downside is that contributors need to figure out how to use github to contribute. The upside is that it's free, you get auditability, versioning, and the barrier of entry may actually increase the quality of translations.

> Typical printf usage is imperative and additive:

> if (enter) printf("Hello "); else printf("Goodbye "); printf("World!\n");

And unless you want your translator to hate you, you really, really mustn’t do this in user-facing output.

(OK, you can if you really want to and if you’re ready to give them the same tools[1], but it won’t be simple. Although I’m unaware of any professional translators supporting this either—most use a CAT, and the Fluent approach ignores those.)

[1] https://projectfluent.org/

I wrote one for creating a Fluent library for PHP.

No. fluent-vue uses Fluent syntax from Mozilla https://projectfluent.org/. Which, I would say is just as powerful as ICU but is much more readable.

I think Mozilla's translation system called Fluent can handle that.

https://projectfluent.org/

After few months of frustration with trying to use the "de-facto" internationalization library for Vue.js - vue-i18n, I've decided it is time to replace it. And that is why I have created fluent-vue. I will write more about it and Fluent syntax it uses in my following blog posts.

fluent

> I'm also not sold on the whole "HTML-style error-recovery"

Having used and written a parser for a similar recoverable localization language (https://projectfluent.org/) I'm sold on it.

It makes a lot of things easier. It's kinda like adding trailing comma to lists. It's both boon when writing lists by hand and generating it via code.