This is an evaluation repository about internationalisation (i18n) in javascript. It should show a example how you translate strings in diffrent javascript i18n frameworks.

This is done to help to make an dession which framework the Openstreemap Editor id should use.

See:

openstreetmap/iD#17

Wishlist for i18n

• open source, free license
• the framwork should support any language (utf8)
• should support singular, plural
• should support something like placeholdes: "Your way is %d nodes long"
• should be easy to translated by the crowed (translatewiki)
• loading languages on demand
• get default language from browser
• switch language without restart

How to write code

There are different aproches for writing code with i18n stacks (Example code showDialog("Server "+hostname+" is not reachable.") ):

1. showDialog(l("Server %s is not reachable.",hostname))
2. showDialog(l("%error.server-failed"))

I prefer the 1. solution.

Solutions I found:

• Dojo: http://dojotoolkit.org/reference-guide/1.8/dojo/i18n.html
• i18next.js http://i18next.com/
• jsperanto.js https://github.com/jpjoyal/jsperanto
• jed.js http://slexaxton.github.com/Jed/
• messageformat.js https://github.com/SlexAxton/messageformat.js
• jquery.i18n plugin http://recursive-design.com/projects/jquery-i18n/
• wikimedia fork https://github.com/wikimedia/jquery.i18n
• l10n.js http://eligrey.com/blog/post/passive-localization-in-javascript