Can't access non-loaded lazy locales using $t

[matnowak]

Hello.

I was trying to put two different languages on the same page.
In my example, I'm trying to pull messages for two different languages i.e. polish and french.
The idea is to get language from a browser (fr) and compare it to language from URL(pl) which will show the message about difference and choose between two of them. That message should be in those two languages that I've got from the browser and URL.

I tried use v-t directive with the locale attribute, but it seems to not work as I expected.
Tried also $t with same effect.

After checking i18n object I had only current language messages (in this situation polish) and both strings were translated into polish only...

My nuxt-i18n config

  parsePages: false,
  locales: LOCALES,
  defaultLocale: process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' ? 'en' : 'en-gb',
  lazy: true,
  langDir: 'lang/',
  vueI18n: {
    fallbackLocale: 'en',
    silentFallbackWarn: true,
    formatFallbackMessages: true,
  },

Is there any possibility to use both languages on the same page?

[rchl]

The $t API [1] takes a locale argument so you could use that if you would have all locales loaded. But since you are lazy loading them, you can't do that.

Interestingly, there is no way to trigger loading of additional locales right now, short of changing to a given locale. I guess it makes sense to add that. Then you would need to manually ensure that all locales you want to use are loaded before you try to get the translations for that locale.

Would that work for you? You would need to programmatically call something like await $i18n.loadLocale('fr') before using it.

[1] https://kazupon.github.io/vue-i18n/api/#vue-injected-methods

[matnowak]

Thank you for the quick answer and sorry about that late response from my side.

Of course - any possibility to add additional language "on the fly" would be nice to have in case of my problem.

Although best would be if I could select some language i.e. in $t and that language would be lazy-loaded automatically, but as I said above - adding it manually and checking if lang is loaded before usage sounds good as well.

[rchl]

Although best would be if I could select some language i.e. in $t and that language would be lazy-loaded automatically

That's technically not doable as $t is a sync API while loading languages is async. So that would make the API not backward-compatible and also async API wouldn't work from templates.

[matnowak]

Makes sense. Manual loading locale sounds good too :)

Pozdrawiam :)

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[Louvki]

Any updates on this?

[mtdvlpr]

@rchl any updates?