.arb file support

[Former user]

ARB files are the recommended way to localize Flutter apps.

Please add .arb file support to Okapi.

[Clément Mouchet]

The WHO app (https://github.com/WorldHealthOrganization/app) client is written with Flutter and while the JSON filter does a a good job with the ARB files, it doesn't support annotations.

I've assigned it to myself and will propose a PR to add this

[Nico Sallembien]

Are you still planning on working on this? We have someone who is interested in contributing an ARB filter to OKAPI.

[Clément Mouchet]

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Hi @Nico Sallembien Yes, but short of time in the near future. However I’ve go a working filter config that works well for ARB files using the JSON filter:

okf_json@Flutter_i10n_arb.fprm

#v1
extractIsolatedStrings.b=true
extractAllPairs.b=true
exceptions=^(@).*
useKeyAsName.b=true
useFullKeyPath.b=true
useLeadingSlashOnKeyPath.b=false
escapeForwardSlashes.b=false
useCodeFinder.b=false
noteRules=.*(description|type|example|placeholders).*
extractionRules=
idRules=
genericMetaRules=.*(description|type|example|placeholders).*
codeFinderRules.count.i=1
codeFinderRules.rule0=
codeFinderRules.sample=
codeFinderRules.useAllRulesWhenTesting.b=true
subfilter=okf_html

We use a proprietary sub-filter that @David Meikle wrote to process them and my intention was to find a way that aligns with the Okapi direction to deal with ICUs. Unfortunately I haven’t got the time for this just now.

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[Denis Konovalyenko]

@Clément Mouchet , I suppose this issue will not be covered in the upcoming 1.40.0 release.

Feel free to adjust the milestone when you have a better vision for this.