🌍 Multilanguage Support for LavaMusic 🎶

🌟 How to Add a New Language

1. 📁 Create a new file in the locales directory with the name of the language in the format language_code.json. For example, EnglishUS.json for English, SpanishES.json for Spanish, etc.
2. 📋 Copy the contents of the EnglishUS.json file into the new file.
3. 🌐 Translate the strings in the new file to the desired language.

📚 Available Translations

• English (US) - EnglishUS.json (Default)

• Hindi - Hindi.json by @Appujet

• Spanish (ES) - SpanishES.json by @LucasB25

• Portuguese (PT) - PortuguesePT.json by @LucasB25

• Polish - Polish.json by @InfNibor and by @LucasB25

• French - French.json by @LucasB25

• German - German.json by @LucasB25

• Russian - Russian.json by @LucasB25

• Korean - Korean.json (In Progress)

• Indonesian - Indonesian.json (Not Started)

• English (GB) - EnglishGB.json (Not Started)

• Bulgarian - Bulgarian.json (Not Started)

• Chinese (CN) - ChineseCN.json (Not Started)

• Chinese (TW) - ChineseTW.json (Not Started)

• Croatian - Croatian.json (Not Started)

• Czech - Czech.json (Not Started)

• Danish - Danish.json (Not Started)

• Dutch - Dutch.json (Not Started)

• Finnish - Finnish.json (Not Started)

• Greek - Greek.json (Not Started)

• Hungarian - Hungarian.json (Not Started)

• Italian - Italian.json (Not Started)

• Japanese - Japanese.json (Not Started)

• Lithuanian - Lithuanian.json (Not Started)

• Norwegian - Norwegian.json (Not Started)

• Portuguese (BR) - PortugueseBR.json (Not Started)

• Romanian - Romanian.json (Not Started)

• Swedish - Swedish.json (Not Started)

• Thai - Thai.json (Not Started)

• Turkish - Turkish.json (Not Started)

• Ukrainian - Ukrainian.json (Not Started)

• Vietnamese - Vietnamese.json (Not Started)

📚 How to Use the Translations

1. 📁 Create a new file in the locales directory with the name of the language in the format language_code.json. For example, EnglishUS.json for English, SpanishES.json for Spanish, etc.

2. 📋 Copy the contents of the EnglishUS.json file into the new file.

3. 🌐 Translate the strings in the new file to the desired language.

Have a language to contribute? 🎉

• Fork the repository.
• Add the translation file in the locales directory.
• Create a pull request with the changes.

📝 Translation Guidelines

• Do not change the key names in the translation JSON file.
• Do not change the structure of the translation JSON file.
• Do not remove the {} tags from the strings.
• Do not add any new keys to the translation JSON file.
• Do not add any new directories to the repository.

📝 Translation JSON Structure

The translation JSON file should be structured as follows:

{
	"category": {
		"command": {
			"description": "Description of the command.",
			"content": "Command content.",
			"key": "value"
		}
	}
}

Example Translation JSON

EnglishUS:

{
	"cmd": {
		"ping": {
			"description": "Shows the bot's ping.",
			"content": "Pinging...",
			"bot_latency": "Bot Latency",
			"api_latency": "API Latency",
			"requested_by": "Requested by {author}"
		}
	}
}

Hindi:

{
	"cmd": {
		"ping": {
			"description": "बॉट का पिंग दिखाता है।",
			"content": "पिंगिंग...",
			"bot_latency": "पिंगिंग...",
			"api_latency": "एपीआई लेटेंसी",
			"requested_by": "{author} द्वारा अनुरोधित"
		}
	}
}

Formatting Tags for i18n NPM

To ensure {} are not removed during translations, use the format tags: ["{", "}"].

📚 Resources

• i18n NPM
• Discord Developer Portal - Locales