Babel in Khan Academy's Internationalization Toolchain

Posted by kevinb7 on Monday June 22, 2015 @05:46PM
from the engineering.khanacademy.org dept.

http://engineering.khanacademy.org/posts/i18n-babel-plugin.htm

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Re:Babel in Khan Academy's Internationalization Toolchain by Osmium on Monday June 22, 2015 @06:28PM (#9761615)

I'm not sure if it was intentional, but I appreciate the irony of a post on internationalisation that hard-codes "first" and "last" names. Not that I have any better ideas!

(Note for any iOS devs, iOS 9 introduces a cool NSPersonNameComponentsFormatter that tries to help with this sort of thing.)

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Re:Babel in Khan Academy's Internationalization Toolchain by kevinb7 on Monday June 22, 2015 @07:59PM (#9761920)

The example was adapted from internal documentation as an example of how templating works with our i18n component. There's still lots I have to learn about i18n. "familyName" and "givenName" would be more general, but there might still be some edges cases that doesn't cover.

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Re:Babel in Khan Academy's Internationalization Toolchain by spicyj on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:16PM (#9761971)

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b... is a fun read.

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