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quick-i18n-gen

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Extension to quickly create translation keys for string literals
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This Extension provides a quick way to translate and replace string literals in your code.

Features

  • Tooltip in VSCode for quickly replacing string literals with a translation key
  • Quick and automatic translation of said string literals using a Translation API
    • Currently supported APIs: DeepL
  • Automatically add translations with key to your translation file
    • Currently supported file types: CSV

Usage of the library would look like this

How to use

Requirements

You need an API key for Deepl, which is free up to a certain amount of translations.

Setup

  1. Set and register your API. Can be done via settings or via the Register Translation API command.

Register API

  1. Select the translation file. Can be done via settings or via the Select Translation File command.

Select File

  1. Select the target languages. Currently, this can only be done through the settings

Extension Settings

  • quick-i18n-gen.apiProvider: API Provider to use for translation. Currently only Deepl available.
    • quick-i18n-gen.deepl.apiKey: API Key for DeepL Translation API
    • quick-i18n-gen.deepl.sourceLanguage: Source language for translation. If left empty, auto-detects the language of the text.
    • quick-i18n-gen.deepl.targetLanguages: Target languages for translation. Translations will be written to the file in order specified here.
  • quick-i18n-gen.translationFilePath: Path to the translation file.
  • quick-i18n-gen.translationFileType: File type of the translation file. Currently only CSV supported.
    • quick-i18n-gen.csv.separator: Separator for CSV file.
    • quick-i18n-gen.csv.quote: Quote character for CSV file.
    • quick-i18n-gen.csv.escape: Escape character for CSV file.
    • quick-i18n-gen.csv.header: Whether CSV file has a header or not.
  • quick-i18n-gen.allowDuplicates: Whether to allow duplicate translations or not.
  • quick-i18n-gen.replacementString: String template to replace the string literal with.

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release

  • [x] Added Deepl API
  • [x] Added CSV file type
  • [x] Added general settings
  • [x] Added translation file selection
  • [x] Added string code actions
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