i18n for Defold

The core is from https://github.com/kikito/i18n.lua with a little modification to make it suitable for Defold.

Some of changes compared to the original one:

• i18n.load_file(path) to load from a JSON file (original is i18n.loadFile and load from a lua file).
• i18n.set_locale(locale) (original is i18n.setLocale)

Basic usage

Import i18n lib

local i18n = require("i18n.i18n")

You then can load translations from a JSON file

i18n.load_file(path/to/your/json/file)

Or load from a lua table

i18n.load({
  en = {
    hello = "Hello %{name}"
  },
  fr = {
    hello = "Bonjour %{name}"
  }
})

After loading translations, you may want to use it at somewhere

print(i18n.translate("hello", { name = "Defold" }))

Or use the shorter form

print(i18n("hello", { name = "Defold" }))

The default locale is en, you can set it to another one as needed by

i18n.set_locale("fr")

Notes:

• In order to load from a JSON file, you should set the file or the folder containing it as a custom resource in game.project

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