Tongues

KCV dictionary parser intended for i18n. Written in TS.

because that's not what JSON is for

Usage

const en = `
key // comment
	value!

another.key
	another
	value!
`;

const dictionaries = { en };

// create tongues instance by providing dictionaries
const instance = tongues(dictionaries);

// get t function for available dictionary
const t = instance.getMap("en");

t("key");
// value!
t("undefined key", "default value");
// default value

For demonstration purposes, the dictionary is stored as string literal.

Build systems usually allow to import files as strings. In Vite, for example, you can use ?raw suffix:

import en from "./assets/en.kcv.txt?raw";
import es from "./assets/es.kcv.txt?raw";

const dictionaries = { en, es };
const instance = tongues(dictionaries);

Import

Tongues is an ES6 module, so:

import tongues from "tongues";
// if you need a type of t-function:
import type { LocaleMap } from "tongues";

Dictionary format

Provided dictionary is split into lines. Lines that start with tabulation (\t) character are value lines, lines that don't are key lines. Key lines are read until // or end of the line, whitespaces are trimmed, resulting string is then considered a key for the following lines, until another key is found.

• \r\n is automatically replaced with \n
• 4 spaces in the beggining of a line are replaced with tabulation character
• first tabulation character is removed from value lines, multiline values ar joined with \n
• empty or whitespace-only lines are ignored, unless they start with \t

Syntax highlighting

You can use vscode extension to highlight dictionaries stored in .kcv.txt files, check releases.

License

Shared under WTFPL license.