Add the linguist library from Chris McCord for internationalization in Elixir language or the Phoenix framework.

Usage

Create a .exs file for each language, defining a list of nested translations. Here’s one you could use for English:

[
  greetings: [
    morning: "Good Morning",
    afternoon: "Good Afternoon"
  ]
]


In your code module:

defmodule I18n do
  # import the linguist module
  use Linguist.Vocabulary

  # load each language's .exs file   locale "en", Path.join([__DIR__, "en.exs"])
end

# use the translation
I18n.t!("en", "greetings.morning")


Interpolation

The documentation on that page shows how to make translations with interpolation (including values and names in the translated text).

[
  greetings: [
    morning: "Good morning, %{name}!"
  ]
]

And in your source code:

defmodule I18n
  use Linguist.Vocabulary

  locale "en", Path.join([__DIR__, "en.exs"])
end

I18n.t!("en", "greetings.morning", name: "Dave")

Upgrading from Phoneix <= 0.6.x

In December 2014, Phonenix 0.7.x removed linguist as a default dependency. You need to include linguist as a dependency for your app.

Unsupported

The linguist library does not currently support multilingual plurals.

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