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Localization within the Client App

The Open Innovation MOOCs is a biligual Application supporting translation in English and Arabic.

Tools and technologies

Set up for Internalization

  • LinguiJs is installed and set up according to the guide in the documentation.
  • The i18n.ts file loads the locales based on language selection.
  • linguric for lingui configuration.
  • The Trans and t modules are imported from "@lingui/macro" for text translation. Example: <Trans>Join us now!</Trans>
  • Run yarn extract to extract the English content to the en.json file

Using Crowdin for translation

  • The Github respository is integrated into crowdin to monitor changes made to the locale file.
  • The English file can be translated using the crowdin Editor or using MT Translation
  • The translated changes are added to the ar.json file and Github creates a Pull Request to merge the changes

Compilation

  • The updated file is compile using yarn compile to load the added Arabic files.