i18n for Google Workspace Add-on

[bgauthie]

Hi Google Workspace Developer Community!

We're a building an hybrid office platform for Google Workspace called Comeen. 

Our application is available on the Google Workspace Marketplace. 

Since we're starting to deploy Enterprise grade customers with offices around the world, we need to translate our Google Workspace Add-on in severals languages : french, english, and more.

Is there best practices to do so or should we use "if" conditions to adapt the add-on's languages to the connected user?

Best,

Benjamin.

[Stephane_fr · Accepted solution]

Hi Benjamin

In Google Wroksapce Add-on you have a specific object to get user local : https://developers.google.com/workspace/add-ons/how-tos/access-user-locale

After for the application on my side for an internal I just implemened a javascript code to translate text when needed.

var LANG = {

en : {select_template:"Select Template",test:"Some content"}

fr : {...},

de:{...},

language : "en", // DEfault to be choosen

init: function() {

var userLang = navigator.language || navigator.userLanguage;

console.log("LANG : "+userLang)

var langToTest = userLang.split('-')[0];

//console.log(langToTest)

this.language = this.getLang(langToTest);

//console.log("new test : "+this.language)

},

getLang : function(langToTest){

if (!LANG[langToTest])

{

langToTest = "en";

}

return langToTest;

},

getStr:function(str, defaultStr) {

// console.log('Replace : '+str + " in "+this.language)

var retStr = LANG[this.language][str];

if (typeof retStr != 'undefined'){

return retStr;

} else {

if (typeof defaultStr != 'undefined'){

return defaultStr;

} else {

return LANG['en'][str];

}

}

}

}

Pour l'appeler je fais :

LANG.init();

LANG.getStr(MY_CODE_IN_THE_LANG_JSON)

Stéphane

[bgauthie]

Thanks a lot @Stephane_fr!