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i18n - 使用 git

A possible translation strategy is to version control the translation files with Git (or any other VCS).

Tradeoffs​

这一方法有如下优势：

  • Easy to get started: just commit the i18n folder to Git
  • Easy for developers: Git, GitHub and pull requests are mainstream developer tools
  • Free (or without any additional cost, assuming you already use Git)
  • Low friction: does not require signing up to an external tool
  • Rewarding: contributors are happy to have a nice contribution history

但使用 Git 也存在一些劣势：

  • Hard for non-developers: they do not master Git and pull-requests
  • Hard for professional translators: they are used to SaaS translation softwares and advanced features
  • Hard to maintain: you have to keep the translated files in sync with the untranslated files
备注

Some large-scale technical projects (React, Vue.js, MDN, TypeScript, Nuxt.js, etc.) use Git for translations.

Refer to the Docusaurus i18n RFC for our notes and links studying these systems.

Initialization​

This is a walk-through of using Git to translate a newly initialized English Docusaurus website into French, and assume you already followed the i18n tutorial.

Prepare the Docusaurus site​

初始化新的 Docusaurus 站点：

npx create-docusaurus@latest website classic

添加简体中文版网站的配置：

docusaurus.config.js
module.exports = {
  i18n: {
    defaultLocale: 'en',
    locales: ['en', 'fr'],
  },
  themeConfig: {
    navbar: {
      items: [
        // ...
        {
          type: 'localeDropdown',
          position: 'left',
        },
        // ...
      ],
    },
  },
  // ...
};

翻译首页：

src/pages/index.js
import React from 'react';
import Translate from '@docusaurus/Translate';
import Layout from '@theme/Layout';

export default function Home() {
  return (
    <Layout>
      <h1 style={{margin: 20}}>
        <Translate description="The homepage main heading">
          Welcome to my Docusaurus translated site!
        </Translate>
      </h1>
    </Layout>
  );
}

Initialize the i18n folder​

Use the write-translations CLI command to initialize the JSON translation files for the French locale:

npm run write-translations -- --locale zh-Hans

  1 translations written at i18n/zh-Hans/code.json
 11 translations written at i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-theme-classic/footer.json
  4 translations written at i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-theme-classic/navbar.json
  3 translations written at i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current.json
提示

Use the --messagePrefix '(fr) ' option to make the untranslated strings stand out.

Hello will appear as (fr) Hello and makes it clear a translation is missing.

把未翻译的 Markdown 文件复制到简体中文文件夹：

mkdir -p i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current
cp -r docs/** i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current

mkdir -p i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog
cp -r blog/** i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-blog

mkdir -p i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages
cp -r src/pages/**.md i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages
cp -r src/pages/**.mdx i18n/zh-Hans/docusaurus-plugin-content-pages

把所有文件添加到 Git。

Translate the files​

Translate the Markdown and JSON files in i18n/fr and commit the translation.

你现在可以用简体中文启动站点，并查看翻译：

npm run start -- --locale zh-Hans

你也可以在本地或 CI 上构建站点：

npm run build
# 或者
npm run build -- --locale zh-Hans

Repeat​

为你要支持的每一个语言重复相同的流程。

Maintenance​

Keeping translated files consistent with the originals can be challenging, in particular for Markdown documents.

Markdown translations​

When an untranslated Markdown document is edited, it is your responsibility to maintain the respective translated files, and we unfortunately don't have a good way to help you do so.

To keep your translated sites consistent, when the website/docs/doc1.md doc is edited, you need backport these edits to i18n/fr/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/doc1.md.

JSON translations​

To help you maintain the JSON translation files, it is possible to run again the write-translations CLI command:

npm run write-translations -- --locale zh-Hans

新译文会被追加，而旧译文不会被覆盖。

提示

Reset your translations with the --override option.

Localize edit URLs​

When the user is browsing a page at /fr/doc1, the edit button will link by default to the unlocalized doc at website/docs/doc1.md.

Your translations are on Git, and you can use the editLocalizedFiles: true option of the docs and blog plugins.

The edit button will link to the localized doc at i18n/fr/docusaurus-plugin-content-docs/current/doc1.md.