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Possible approach to internationalization in Haskell
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{-# LANGUAGE TypeFamilies #-} | |
{-# LANGUAGE FlexibleContexts #-} | |
import Data.Maybe (fromMaybe) | |
class MaybeRead a where | |
maybeRead :: String -> Maybe a | |
class MaybeRead (Language a) => I18N a where | |
type Language a | |
type Message a | |
i18n :: Language a -> a -> Maybe (Message a) | |
i18nDefault :: a -> Message a | |
i18nLang :: I18N a => String -> a -> Message a | |
i18nLang lang a = fromMaybe (i18nDefault a) $ maybeRead lang >>= flip i18n a | |
i18nLangs :: I18N a => [String] -> a -> Message a | |
i18nLangs [] a = i18nDefault a | |
i18nLangs (l:ls) a = | |
case maybeRead l >>= flip i18n a of | |
Nothing -> i18nLangs ls a | |
Just m -> m | |
data Result = | |
Correct | |
| TooLow Int | |
| TooHigh Int | |
| NotANumber String | |
data Lang = English | Hebrew | French | |
instance MaybeRead Lang where | |
maybeRead "en" = Just English | |
maybeRead "en-us" = Just English | |
maybeRead "he" = Just Hebrew | |
maybeRead "he-il" = Just Hebrew | |
maybeRead _ = Nothing | |
instance I18N Result where | |
type Language Result = Lang | |
type Message Result = String -- could be Text, Html, etc | |
i18n English x = Just $ i18nDefault x | |
i18n Hebrew Correct = Just "נכון" | |
i18n Hebrew (TooLow x) = Just $ "קטן מדי: " ++ show x | |
i18n Hebrew (TooHigh x) = Just $ "גדול מדי: " ++ show x | |
i18n Hebrew (NotANumber x) = Just $ "נא לתת מספר: " ++ x | |
i18n French _ = Nothing -- I need to learn French | |
i18nDefault Correct = "Correct" | |
i18nDefault (TooLow x) = "Too small: " ++ show x | |
i18nDefault (TooHigh x) = "Too big: " ++ show x | |
i18nDefault (NotANumber x) = "Please enter a number: " ++ x | |
main = do | |
putStrLn $ i18nLang "en" (TooLow 8) | |
putStrLn $ i18nLang "es" (TooLow 8) | |
putStrLn $ i18nLang "he-il" (TooLow 8) | |
putStrLn $ i18nLang "en" Correct | |
putStrLn $ i18nLang "en-us" Correct | |
putStrLn $ i18nLangs ["fr", "de", "en-us", "he"] $ TooHigh 9 |
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