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| author | EvidenceB Kidscode <49488517+EvidenceBKidscode@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-04-25 07:20:00 +0200 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-04-25 07:20:00 +0200 |
| commit | cee3c5e73d7af2a876aa76275234ee76e7cb1bbc (patch) | |
| tree | 66abf52902be5c4d7ccc7aa40d20ed77a2a263e0 /doc/lua_api.txt | |
| parent | 914dbeaa0be4b5ef87506b605ef4e241cd3732dc (diff) | |
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Add server side translations capability (#9733)
* Add server side translations capability
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diff --git a/doc/lua_api.txt b/doc/lua_api.txt index 77f06682f..3ca32649a 100644 --- a/doc/lua_api.txt +++ b/doc/lua_api.txt @@ -3176,8 +3176,22 @@ Strings that need to be translated can contain several escapes, preceded by `@`. `minetest.translate`, but is in translation files. * `@n` acts as a literal newline as well. +Server side translations +------------------------ + +On some specific cases, server translation could be useful. For example, filter +a list on labels and send results to client. A method is supplied to achieve +that: + +`minetest.get_translated_string(lang_code, string)`: Translates `string` using +translations for `lang_code` language. It gives the same result as if the string +was translated by the client. +The `lang_code` to use for a given player can be retrieved from +the table returned by `minetest.get_player_information(name)`. +IMPORTANT: This functionality should only be used for sorting, filtering or similar purposes. +You do not need to use this to get translated strings to show up on the client. Perlin noise ============ @@ -4153,6 +4167,7 @@ Utilities connection_uptime = 200, -- seconds since client connected protocol_version = 32, -- protocol version used by client formspec_version = 2, -- supported formspec version + lang_code = "fr" -- Language code used for translation -- following information is available on debug build only!!! -- DO NOT USE IN MODS --ser_vers = 26, -- serialization version used by client |