[LIBRARY] language.lua A simple string manager for localization in pure lua

[alejandroalzate]

This is the second contribution to the community, since formatting a nice looking post for viewtopic.php?t=95418 was a pain i will just send you directly to the repositories to take a look the read me that should have enough info about it to get you started, since it's quite simple but saves the chore of making that stack of functions.

Get a copy here:
Github: https://github.com/alejandro-alzate/language-lua
or here:
Luarocks: https://luarocks.org/modules/alejandro-alzate/language

[dusoft]

Any new open source library is welcome, so thanks.

I checked it and it seems similar to:
https://github.com/kikito/i18n.lua

Both yours and Kikito's will work great for smaller number of text strings. Once your need is in hundreds to thousands of strings (e.g. adventure game with lots of dialogs etc.), the format gets impractical to work with.

I prefer using POEdit for editing and then gettext or similar for actual translation. Gettext is well tested and offers full support of universal pluralization that works for any language. There are couple of gettext implementations in Lua and Lua with FFI.

[alejandroalzate]

I checked it and it seems similar to:
https://github.com/kikito/i18n.lua

Didn't know he had one. dude this guy, zorg, and rxi are the literal pillars of most lua libraries out there

[GVovkiv]

Any new open source library is welcome, so thanks.

I checked it and it seems similar to:
https://github.com/kikito/i18n.lua

Both yours and Kikito's will work great for smaller number of text strings. Once your need is in hundreds to thousands of strings (e.g. adventure game with lots of dialogs etc.), the format gets impractical to work with.

I prefer using POEdit for editing and then gettext or similar for actual translation. Gettext is well tested and offers full support of universal pluralization that works for any language. There are couple of gettext implementations in Lua and Lua with FFI.

There also other good translation systems, such as Fluent https://projectfluent.org/fluent/guide/index.html
And lua implementation of it https://github.com/alerque/fluent-lua/issues, but, sadly, this one seems to be abandoned and not 100% feature completed

[dusoft]

Any new open source library is welcome, so thanks.

I checked it and it seems similar to:
https://github.com/kikito/i18n.lua

Both yours and Kikito's will work great for smaller number of text strings. Once your need is in hundreds to thousands of strings (e.g. adventure game with lots of dialogs etc.), the format gets impractical to work with.

I prefer using POEdit for editing and then gettext or similar for actual translation. Gettext is well tested and offers full support of universal pluralization that works for any language. There are couple of gettext implementations in Lua and Lua with FFI.

There also other good translation systems, such as Fluent https://projectfluent.org/fluent/guide/index.html
And lua implementation of it https://github.com/alerque/fluent-lua/issues, but, sadly, this one seems to be abandoned and not 100% feature completed

Nice library, I haven't know about this one. However the lua bindings seem quite limited and yes, it does not seem to be up to date.