Localizing a string containing links

[Joe Barnes]

Lately I've been helping some folks understand how to internationalize/localize their app to support multiple languages. I ran into a case where there is a string which contains two phrases (Terms of Use and Privacy Policy) both of which should be a href links. I know I could sorta brute force my way by localizing each of the 5 pieces individually, but that's a bit gross. Is there a good way to do this that I'm not aware of?

Joe

[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

That's a really nasty/annoying problem, unfortunately. Lift supports XML

translation files that can include more complex stuff, IIRC, but I've never

used it (it's also a lot more verbose to work with, unfortunately). In our

case, we've been using a {}-delimited placeholder; e.g.:

myMessage-link=You agree to the {terms} and the {privacy-policy}.

Unfortunately you kind of have to hand-parse it, and then you inline an

`<a href` construction in the Scala code. It ain't pretty.

Another option that you could use is using markdown with a URL placeholder

that then gets replaced and run through lift-markdown.

Thanks,

Antonio

[Peter Petersson]

I tend to use lifts XML resource handling and for a case like that I wold probably do something like the below and use a NodeSeq.

&lt;res name="page.section.temsAndPolicy" lang="en" default="true"&gt;
  &lt;span&gt;&lt;a href="xxx"&gt;Terms of Use&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="yyy"&gt;Privacy Policy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;/res&gt;

best regards Peter Petersson

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[Peter Petersson]

ha ha that didn't look to good I though I needed to escape the html in the mail (to make it render as text), here is the correct resource code snippet again

<res name="page.section.temsAndPolicy" lang="en" default="true">

  <span><a href="xxx">Terms of Use</a> and <a href="yyy">Privacy Policy</a><span>
<res>

best regards Peter Petersson

[Antonio Salazar Cardozo]

Can you use this and properties files simultaneously, or do you have to go

all in on one or the other?

Thanks,

Antonio

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[Peter Petersson]

My guess is that you can mix them. I base this assumption on, that for example, ProtoUser uses som lift built-in properties that I have used or even overrided using xml properties I have however not tested it in any other way.

[Joe Barnes]

Thanks for the ideas. Both are certainly preferable to slamming multiple strings together!

Joe

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