An APL namespace for multilingual text support.
Function translate.text takes a string argument and returns it as its result a (no-op)
translate.text 'yesterday'
yesterday
unless
translate.dictionarydefines an equivalent string in another language- and the string appears in its dictionary
when the corresponding string is returned.
'fr' translate.text 'yesterday'
hier
'de' translate.text 'yesterday'
Gestern
You can set a default target language and omit the left argument.
translate.default←'fr'
translate.text 'yesterday'
hier
A dictionary is a table of equivalent strings in two or more languages, where a table is a matrix and a list of column names.
_testDictionary
┌────────────────────┬──────────┐
│┌─────┬──────┬─────┐│┌──┬──┬──┐│
││cow │vache │Kuh │││en│fr│de││
│├─────┼──────┼─────┤│└──┴──┴──┘│
││sheep│mouton│Schaf││ │
│├─────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
││cat │chat │Katze││ │
│├─────┼──────┼─────┤│ │
││dog │chien │Hund ││ │
│└─────┴──────┴─────┘│ │
└────────────────────┴──────────┘
The test dictionary shown above is the result of
⎕CSV 'testDictionary.csv' 'UTF-8' ⍬ 1
Consider objects whose names begin with an underscore _ as internal to the namespace.
If translate were a class, they would be private to it.
The function _testSuite is niladic.
It reports in the session any tests failed and returns the number of problems found.
The variable translate.help contains brief help.