README.md

nutext

A library that brings gettext support to Nushell!

Usage

There are three commands, tregister, _, and tprint. First you must register your path and program name with tregister like so:

tregister /usr/share/locale/ my-program

Then you can start using tprint like so:

tprint "Hello World! I am {name}. I am {years} years old" { name: "Elsie", years: 19 }

Or if you need to get the translated string alone:

let my_var = (_ "Hello {world}" { world: "World" })

I also have provided the tool xnutext, not too disimilar to xgettext, which will extract all translatable strings from your nu programs. There are two catches to using this:

1. Nutext must be installed and functional.
2. Your program must be syntactically correct according to Nu: xnutext will not extract text if the program cannot be ran. This is because xnutext relies on Nu's AST capabilities to accurately know where commands are being run (as opposed to say, a string that contains _).

After you have verified these, you should run:

xnutext list of files -o po/program.pot