Hi, as far as I am concerned I build embedded systems. Slow CPUs and no FPU so to get a responsive UI we use JQuery. We've customised the httpd to do regexps on all text to make sure one cannot use what are considered "unsafe characters". Letting the backend do all translation would be really slow.
So here is my setup: 1 mo file containing UI and application translations. CGI-scripts also use this one. In /etc/rc we run mo2json on the file and create a json object in memory since we have lots of constraints it works better to do this at runtime. Then JED.js use this to do the translations on the DOM tree in the browser. Today I created npgettext so we can use different contexts for different cgi-scripts. We have a script based on our inhouse-made html2po.py and xgettext. Actually Python as language works better than the JS parser. Hope you guys get a grip of what I am up to. :-) BR, Markus Gothe Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone. Original Message From: Bruno Haible Sent: onsdagen den 21:e december 2016 18:34 To: Daiki Ueno; bug-gettext@gnu.org Cc: Markus Gothe Subject: JavaScript support status Hi, I'm trying to get an understanding of: - What is the JavaScript community doing w.r.t. localization and PO and MO files? - What can/should the GNU gettext package do in order to be useful for this community? Here's a set of packages and use situations I could find. It does not give a big picture to me. Can someone shed some light on anything of this, and clarify? ========================== Package in/for JavaScript ========================== JavaScript libraries: * gettext-js https://code.google.com/archive/p/gettext-js/ 2007-2009 API: A global Gettext object. Implementation: Uses PO files by parsing them. Depends on Prototype.js. * jsgettext https://sourceforge.net/projects/jsgettext.berlios/ https://github.com/adrienrn/jsgettext https://bitbucket.org/fanstatic/js.jsgettext http://jsgettext.sourceforge.net/ 2008-2011 API: A global Gettext object. See http://jsgettext.sourceforge.net/doc/html/Gettext.html Implementation: Uses PO files by parsing them. * JQuery Globalize https://github.com/globalizejs/globalize 2010-2016 Uses just JSON, no PO or MO files so far * jed https://github.com/messageformat/Jed http://messageformat.github.io/Jed/ https://alexsexton.com/blog/2012/10/introducing-the-jed-toolkit/ http://www.2ality.com/2012/11/jed-toolkit.html http://www.jeromesteunou.net/internationalisation-in-javascript.html 2012-2016 * gettext-js based on jed https://www.npmjs.com/package/gettext-js https://github.com/frascata/gettext-js 2016 * angular-gettext https://angular-gettext.rocketeer.be/ https://github.com/rubenv/angular-gettext 2013-2016 API: An Angular module. Implementation: Uses JSON files created by https://github.com/rubenv/angular-gettext-tools Depends on Angular. * angular-translate https://github.com/angular-translate/angular-translate 2013-2016 ? * gettext.js https://github.com/ojii/gettext.js http://gettextjs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ API: minimal Includes a MO -> JSON converter: https://github.com/ojii/gettext.js/blob/master/src/py/gettextjs.py 2015-2016 "Toolkits": * http://i18next.com Integrated in web frameworks: * Babel https://babel.edgewall.org/ https://babel.edgewall.org/wiki/Documentation/messages.html also supports JavaScript API: ? Implementation: ? * Django https://www.djangoproject.com/ https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.10/topics/i18n/translation/ Lexer: https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django/utils/jslex.py 2011-2015 Implementation: Uses .mo files Uses "wrappers around xgettext and msgfmt", "for convenience". * django-jsgettext based on Django https://github.com/niwinz/django-jsgettext 2012-2013 Converters PO -> MO * https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-gettext https://github.com/cloud-walker/gulp-gettext 2015-2016 Converters MO -> JSON * https://github.com/jakob-stoeck/jpoker/blob/master/mo2json.py 2008 * https://github.com/wrook/jquery.gettext/blob/master/mo2json.py 2009 =============================== Use situations =============================== JavaScript runtimes: - Browsers - Node.js (a.k.a. "server-side JavaScript") - gjs (command-line, but linked to Mozilla's JavaScript) [who uses that?] ================================= Status quo ================================= What is currently implemented in GNU gettext? - xgettext support for jsgettext package. - A test case lang-javascript. Based on the gjs gettext module. - There is no hello-javascript. Bruno
