arb-convert

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Tool to convert JSON-based Application Resource Bundle (ARB) localization format by Google to another format and back.

``shell
npm install -g arb-convert
`

Background

ARB is the format of choice when using the Dart intl package to localize Flutter apps. It has not seen wide adoption by translation providers however. Since December 2019, Google shut down its Translator Toolkit that has natively supported the ARB format. So now Flutter devs can either migrate to another library and format, edit files by hand or convert to another format. This project aims to aid with the latter.

Supported formats

* XLIFF 1.2/2.0/2.1
* GNU gettext
* ... add your format, PRs welcome

Please note that ICU placeholders and plural notations are not converted.

Node.js

`js
const arbConvert = require('arb-convert');
const { convertFromArb, parseToArb } = arbConvert;

const xmlString = convertFromArb('xliff-1.2', {
source: '{ "@@locale": "en-US", ... }',
target: '{ "@@locale": "de-DE", ... }', // optional
original: 'namespace', // optional
sourceLanguage: 'en-US', // optional (override)
targetLanguage: 'de-DE', // optional (override)
});

const result = parseToArb('xliff', {
content: xmlString,
});
// { source, target, original, sourceLanguage, targetLanguage }

`

Binaries

$3

`shell
Usage: arb2xliff [options]

Options:
--sourcefile source ARB file (required)
--targetfile target ARB file
--original where the translations come from
--sourcelang source locale override, e.g. en-US, in case it cannot be determined from file content or file name
--targetlang target locale override, e.g. de-DE, in case it cannot be determined from file content or file name
--outversion XLIFF version, e.g. 1.2 (default) or 2.0/2.1
--out write XLIFF to file if given or stdout if omitted
-h, --help output usage information
`

$3

`shell
Usage: xliff2arb [options]

Options:
--file source XLIFF file (required)
--sourceout write source ARB to file if given or stdout if omitted
--targetout write target ARB to file if given
-h, --help output usage information
`

$3

`shell
Usage: arb2po [options]

Options:
--sourcefile source ARB file (required)
--targetfile target ARB file
--original where the translations come from
--sourcelang source locale override, e.g. en-US, in case it cannot be determined from file content or file name
--targetlang target locale override, e.g. de-DE, in case it cannot be determined from file content or file name
--out write PO to file if given or stdout if omitted
-h, --help output usage information
`

$3

`shell
Usage: po2arb [options]

Options:
--file source PO file (required)
--sourceout write source ARB to file if given or stdout if omitted
--targetout write target ARB to file if given
-h, --help output usage information
``