Static Text
When calling static text in the content of your storefront pages. If the template contains a call to the $i18n.write, then its performing a look up first against the languages file "eng.default.json" for a match.
If it finds a match there it will use the text as defined in the languages document. If it does not find a match there, it will use the string as defined in the template code directly.
Example
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If you edit a template you may be tempted to just place static text into the template. For example you are putting in a title div into the document like this:
<div class="ucColorSubHeader">Your contact email</div>
If you enter text directly like this into the template, it will generate an i18n (internationalization) violation. An i18n violation means there is a piece of text that the system can not automatically translate when the customer is browsing in a different language. To get around this problem, the text is passed through the i18n system so that it can be tracked and translated. To do this, use the $i18n object by calling $i18n.write like the example below.
<div class="ucColorSubHeader">$i18n.write("checkout.viewcart.yourContactEmailField",
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"Your
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contact
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email")</div>
Muti-lingual Support
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Notice that there are two parameters on this $i18n.write call. The first parameter is a "key" and then the second parameter is the text. Every single write call needs to have a unique key associated with it. The key is arbitrary, but you will typically see a three part key used by our theme developers: section.template.textIdentifier.
Multi-lingual Support
Multi-lingual support is new to StoreFronts as of April, 2016. Here are some of the highlights of the capabilities:
- Your StoreFront can translate almost 100% of all of the content into 60 different languages automatically (powered by Google Translate).
- Translatable content includes menus, items, page content, blog posts, and static text.
- Provides a consistent user interface throughout the system for modifying automatic translations for further fine tuning.
- Automatically identify the desired language of the browser and use it if the merchant has configured support for it.
Themes that support the new multi-lingual capabilities
- Craft - 0.20 +
- Fashion - 0.14+
- Gridzy - 0.14+
- Mr Teas - 0.35+
- Natural - 0.19 +
- Trial - 0.12 +
- Woodland - 0.12+
Directions for editing a language file
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