Adding Translated Documents

[yamatoya]

Can I add localized document pages? For example, imagine that the site has a Japanese translation of the documentation under "ja-jp".
If possible, I would like to provide Japanese translations of the documentation.

[daveaglick]

There's nothing in-the-box right now, though you could certainly add folders like input/ja-jp directly and the files inside would output to that location. Another approach I've seen is to load JSON files with various translations and locales:

en-us.json:

{
  "foo": "buzz"
}

ja-jp.json:

{
  "foo": "bazz"
}

Then use those values inside a Razor template with something like Outputs["ja-jp.json"].First().GetString("Foo"). A more sophisticated setup could even put the translation files in a subdirectory, iterate on them, and produce an output document for each one. This approach works well when you've got common content with just a handful of things that need to be translated.

Eventually Statiq will get some built-in localization support, I'm just not sure yet when that'll be or what it'll look like.