Adapter Translations

Whenever possible, adapters should provide multiple languages for everything the user will see. Like

• Adapter name
• Adapter description
• Adapter news
• Object names
• Instance configuration inputs
• VIS widgets
• End user documentation / help
• ...

Languages

Translation tools

Dev-Tools

The easiest way to translate strings is the adapter-dev package.

It should be added as a dev dependency the adapter project and provides several commands to translate admin UI, io-package objects and other texts.

npm install --save-dev @iobroker/adapter-dev

Website

To translate an English text to multiple languages, the ioBroker translator tool is also helpful. The website will translate any English phrase to all supported languages and returns JSON.

Example output:

{
  "Example": {
    "en": "Example",
    "de": "Beispiel",
    "ru": "Пример",
    "pt": "Exemplo",
    "nl": "Voorbeeld",
    "fr": "Exemple",
    "it": "Esempio",
    "es": "Ejemplo",
    "pl": "Przykład",
    "zh-cn": "例子"
  }
}