Module:Multilingual/doc

Template:LuaModuleDoc Multilingual – Module with functions in context of languages, language codes, language names.

Template:Anker Functions for templates

All functions expect one unnamed parameter 1 with the key information, and sometimes more optionals. Whitespace ahead and after any content is ignored. Upcasing of language code segments like in en-US does not matter; results are downcased.

The return value is an empty string (“nothing”), if the parameter value does not fulfil the expectations. If there is a result or the query condition is true, at least one visible character will be returned. The result does not begin or end with a space.

findCode Template:Anker

Retrieve code of language name in local (current project) language.

A code itself will be identified, too.

format Template:Anker

Format one or more languages.

• 1 – language list or single item
• slang – language of the answer, if not native
  • * – native (default)
  • ! – current project
  • any valid code
• shift – capitalization
  • c – capitalize all
  • d – downcase everything
  • f – capitalize first item only
• link=1 – link items
• scream – category title in case of error
• split – split pattern, if list expected; e.g. split=, – otherwise 1 is regarded as single item
• separator – list separator, else split
• start – prepend first list element, if any

getBase Template:Anker

Retrieve base language from possibly combined ISO language code.

getName Template:Anker

Which name is assigned to this language code?

• 2 – language of the answer
  • * – in that language itself (default)
  • ! – in project language
  • Any ISO code.

isLang Template:Anker

Could this be an ISO language code?

• nothing – if not

isLangWiki Template:Anker

Could this be a Wiki language version?

• nothing – if not

kannDeutsch Template:Anker

Might someone with this language code understand German?

• nothing – if not

userLang Template:Anker

Try to support user language by application.

• 1 – space separated list of available ISO 639 codes
• Result:
  • If the current user language is not a list element, the first element is used.
  • If the current user language is a variant like en-US or en-GB and that is not mentioned explicitly in list, base language (here en) will be tried.
  • If nothing matches and no list is provided, the project language (here en), at least en for English will be returned.

Examples (test page)

A test page illustrates practical use.

Template:Anker Functions for Lua modules (API)

All functions described above can be used by other modules:

local lucky, Multilingual = pcall( require, "Module:Multilingual" )
if type( Multilingual ) == "table" then
    Multilingual = Multilingual.Multilingual()
else
    -- failure; Multilingual is the error message
    return "<span class='error'>" .. Multilingual .. "</span>"
end

Subsequently there are available:

Multilingual.findCode( ask ) Template:Anker

Multilingual.format( apply, alien, alter, active, alert, frame, assembly, adjacent ) Template:Anker

• apply – string with language list or single item
• alien – language of the answer
  • nil false "*" – native
  • "!" – current project
  • any valid code
• alter – capitalization
  • "c" – capitalize
  • "d" – downcase everything
  • "f" – capitalize first item only, downcase anything else
• active – link items, if true
• alert – string with category title in case of error
• frame – if available
• assembly – string with split pattern, if list expected
• adjacent – string with list separator, else assembly
• ahead – string for optional prepending first element, if any

Multilingual.getBase( ask ) Template:Anker

Multilingual.getName( ask, alien ) Template:Anker

• alien – language of the answer
  • nil false "*" – native
  • "!" – current project
  • Any ISO code.

Multilingual.isLang( ask ) Template:Anker

Multilingual.isLangWiki( ask ) Template:Anker

Multilingual.kannDeutsch( ask ) Template:Anker

Multilingual.userLang( accept, frame ) Template:Anker

• accept – string with space separated list of available ISO 639 codes
• frame – if available

If succeeding, the Multilingual.get*() return a string, the Multilingual.is*() true; on failure false.

Usage

General library; no limitations.

Dependencies

None.

• [[../../WLink|WLink]]
• /config – optional project specific adaption

Multilingual/en