Internationalization (i18n)

Locales

Karrot is available in different languages. So, instead of adding English text directly to a component's source file, we add a key instead. This key points to a text in each of the locale files.

All locale files can be found under src/locales/. For example the Spanish locale file is located at src/locales/locale-es.json.

Instead of

<ChangePhoto
  ...
  :label="Group logo"
  :hint="Click to upload your group logo!"
  ...
/>

we write

<ChangePhoto ... :label="$t('GROUP.LOGO')" :hint="$t('GROUP.SET_LOGO')" ... />

$t(...) is a function provided by vue-i18n which does all the lookup magic.

Adding new text to locales

• Add a new key-value pair to src/locales/locale-en.json
• As a convention keys are CAPITALIZED.
• Keys can be nested for better structure.
• Do not add the key to the other locale-*.json files. They will be added automatically by the CI tool after merge to master and translated by transifex.

Adding new locales

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