I’ve pulled together a requirements document and some initial proposals for a Meteor-standard i18n/l10n solution (that’s making your app support several user languages automatically) and it seemed right to put it on Hackpad as it’s a core proposal. I wasn’t able to find any existing written proposals/design docs please let me know if there are any. I haven’t taken it upon myself to actually build such a thing but it can be helpful to contribute specifications. I am not affiliated with MDG, this is just a community contribution and not “official” in any sense.
Please add requirements and/or proposals or criticize the existing ones there or here as you wish. Requirements focus on What and Why, and Proposals focus on How.
I do think this is a priority as it has the potential to affect every line of code we write and I prefer to write lines of code only once. And the ecosystem as a whole should have a single integrated i18n solution so the packages are cleanly composable across languages. Yes I know about 3rd party packages such as tap:i18n and find them inadequate in their present form as a platform standard. With Windows support for Meteor motivated by global reach we ought to make multilingual development comfortable for our new arrivals.
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