Internationalization support?

[ilyabreev]

Do you plan to add internationalization support to your package?
I think it may be very useful for non-english development targets.

[evdb]

I'd be interested to try. What sort of things do you think need to be internalionatized? How do you think it would be easiest for the end users to use the i18n?

[ilyabreev]

I think that primary goal is to localize country names. It'll simplify lookup of country in native language.
If I have textbox with dropdown on my web page, for example, to make autocomplete and then get all information about country.

In terms of code it can be done if lookup parameter will become a function:

var lookup = require('country-data').lookup('ru');

and then all subsequent calls to lookup functions will use russian (as in the example above) language for querying on name parameter.
To change language you need to create another lookup object. It seems to be the appropriate way.

[evdb]

Country names, and currency names too I suppose.

I don't think I would provide a look up function to do the conversion.
Instead I would provide the data required for native internationalisation
routines to use. That way if an app already has an i18n solution they can
continue to use it.

Perhaps providing the translations in gettext compatible files which can
then be adapted to other translation setups?

Does that seem sensible to you?
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 at 15:02, Ilya Breev [email protected] wrote:

I think that primary goal is to localize country names. It'll simplify
lookup of country in native language.
If I have textbox with dropdown on my web page, for example, to make
autocomplete and then get all information about country.

In terms of code it can be done if lookup parameter will become a
function:

var lookup = require('country-data').lookup('ru');

and then all subsequent calls to lookup functions will use russian (as in
the example above) language for querying on name parameter.
To change language you need to create another lookup object. It seems to
be the appropriate way.

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[ilyabreev]

It's a great idea!

[ilyabreev]

I'd participate in translation into russian, for example.

[PhilippMi]

Any progress on this issue? I would like to have this feature too.

[evdb]

It is not something that I personally have a need for. Pull requests
welcome :)
On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 at 16:13, Philipp Mitterer [email protected]
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Any progress on this issue? I would like to have this feature too.

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