Idea: Alias option for locales in command

[kitbs]

Use case: A user wants to publish locale files differently from how they are named in the package.

Scenarios:

• Underscore instead of hyphen, e.g. zh-CN → zh_CN
• Favour script over region, e.g. zh-CN → zh-Hans
• Arbitrary, e.g. en → english?
• Clone an existing language to start editing a new variant, e.g. de → de-CH

Ideas:

• New --alias= option for publish command with format such as locale:alias(,locale:alias)*
• Underscore or hyphen preference
• Predefined mappings between common use cases:
  • zh-CN/zh-TW → zh-Hans/zh-Hant (favour script over region, as in CDLR)
  • pt/pt-BR → pr-PT/pt (favour Brazil as default over Portugal, as in CLDR)

[hivokas]

What about implementing "did you mean?" functionality. Seems to be relevant for this issue.

This function could be used:
https://www.php.net/manual/ru/function.levenshtein.php

[kitbs]

I was just looking at levenshtein for something else today actually! 😄 I think that is a good idea to go along with #167 but I don't think it's quite right for this idea.

This use case here is that the user knows our file is named "zh-CN.json", but when they publish it to their own project, they want it to be saved as "zh-Hans.json". (Nowadays the script subtag is "more correct" than the region subtag for Chinese.)

So they could run the command something like:

php artisan nova-lang:publish zh-CN --alias=zh-Hans

or:

php artisan nova-lang:publish --all --alias=zh-CN:zh-Hans,zh-TW:zh-Hant

[hivokas]

Got it.

[kitbs]

Closed by #172