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[aergo20]

Hi @leafo! Congrats for this great web framework. I have a feature suggestion: An i18n (translation) module for Lapis.

Example:

--app.lua
local lapis = require("lapis")

local app = lapis.Application()
app:enable("etlua")

app:enable("i18n")


app:get("/", function(self)
  return {
    render = "list",
    language = "es", -- or translation = "es" ??
    -- pass true to auto detect (via accept-language header).
    -- pass false to disable translations in this request
    -- a list of languages can be used for fallbacks e.g. {"pt-br", "pt"}
   }
end)


return app




--views/list.etlua
<%=i18n("Hello World!")%>
<%=i18n("%i item", 10)%> (the i18n uses string.format if extra args)
<%=i18n("not found")%> (not found keys returns itself)
My current language is <%=i18n.language%> (<%=i18n.detected and "auto detected" or "selected by user"%>)




--translations/es.lua
return {
  ["Hello World!"] = "Hola Mundo",

  ["%i item"] = {"%i item", "%i items"}, -- %i is 1 returns [1], else returns [2] (singular/plural simple)
  ["%i item"] = {"%i item", "%i item", "%i items"}, -- %i is 0 returns [1], %i is 1 returns [2], else returns [3] (zero/singular/plural)

-- see https://cldr.unicode.org/index/cldr-spec/plural-rules 
-- see https://github.com/kikito/i18n.lua#pluralization

}

[leafo]

Although I have not created an official general purpose i18n library, I have published @itchio's i18n code here: https://github.com/itchio/itchio-i18n

[aergo20]

Your library is excellent! but a built-in library with support for many languages would help Lapis developers IMHO
What do you think?