About

javascript-i18n-core is an easy way to perform i18n to your javascript project without any library.

Installation

put script into <head>...</head>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8" src="i18n.js"></script>

Configure

i18n.set({
  lang: 'en-us, zh-tw...', 
  path: '',
});

option	description
lang	valid ISO 639-1, ISO 3166-1 language code.
path	language file path. default empty(same level as core js)

Usage

date and time

i18n.datetime(); //return current datetime in 'YYYY-mm-dd h:i:s' format.

i18n.datetime('2011/01/01 00:00:00'); //return '2011/01/01 00:00:00' in customize format.

string without variables

i18n._('your message');

string with variables

i18n._('string with variables %1 %2...', param1, param2...);

e.g.

i18n._('My name is %1, I\'m %2 years old', 'John', '15');

Language File format

language file content must be valid in standard JSON format(UTF-8).
filename must be same as language code. e.g. zh-tw.js, zh-cn.js...

Default setting

{
    "setting": {
        "DST": -4,
        "format": "D, d F Y H:i:s", //datetime format like PHP date()
        "AM": "AM",
        "PM": "PM"
    },
    "shortMonths": ["Jan", "Feb", "Mar", "Apr", "May", "Jun", "Jul", "Aug", "Sep", "Oct", "Nov", "Dec"],
    "longMonths": ["January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July", "August", "September", "October", "November", "December"],
    "shortDays": ["Sun", "Mon", "Tue", "Wed", "Thu", "Fri", "Sat"],
    "longDays": ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"]
}

Chinese(Traditional)

{
    "setting": {
        "DST": 8,
        "format": "Y 年 m 月 d 日 (D) H:i:s", //datetime format like PHP date()
        "AM": "上午",
        "PM": "下午"
    },
    "shortMonths": ["1 月", "2 月", "3 月", "4 月", "5 月", "6 月", "7 月", "8 月", "9 月", "10 月", "11 月", "12 月"],
    "longMonths": ["一月", "二月", "三月", "四月", "五月", "六月", "七月", "八月", "九月", "十月", "十一月", "十二月"],
    "shortDays": ["日", "一", "二", "三", "四", "五", "六"],
    "longDays": ["星期日", "星期一", "星期二", "星期三", "星期四", "星期五", "星期六"],

    //customize string    
    "Hello World": "哈囉! 世界",
    "Nice to meet you, %1": "很高興認識你，%1",
    "My name is %1, I'm %2 years old": "我的名字是 %1，我今年 %2 歲"
}

Online Demo

http://app.essoduke.org/i18n/