Initialization of go-i18n taking care of loading locale for Linux

gistfile1.txt

import( i18n "github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n/i18n" )

func i18nInit(packageName string) (i18n.TranslateFunc, error) { 
        osLocale := os.Getenv("LANG") 

        userLocale := osLocale[:len(".UTF8")] //Might need to make this generic 
        defaultLocale := "en_US" 

        i18n.MustLoadTranslationFile(fmt.Sprintf("./src/cf/i18n/%s/%s.all.json", packageName, defaultLocale)) 
        i18n.MustLoadTranslationFile(fmt.Sprintf("./src/cf/i18n/%s/%s.all.json", packageName, userLocale)) 

        T, err := i18n.Tfunc(userLocale, defaultLocale) 
        if err != nil { 
                fmt.Printf("Could not initialize i18n strings") 
                return nil, err 
        } 

        return T, nil 
}