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How do you handle language files?
(lemmy.world)
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You could write a script that updates other files based on english file. It could put someting like
to missing fields.
Usually a translation system might return the key value if the translation is missing. By translating with "untranslated" as a default you'd get just that text filled as fallback.
Unless you reinvent the wheel for lookup and can just ignore your magic value, or put an if on every value lookup.
Might be a risk there.
You're right, I didn't think about it
Your idea will work with minor changes (if comments are supported in your file format). At work our tooling create entries like
123="English text" // UNTRANSLATED
. Obviously not quite the same format, but it should be adaptable to any format that supports comments.