Malaysia localisation | date-fns: A Javascript date utility library

zyten (43)in #utopian-io • 7 years ago (edited)

Contribution to Open Source Project: 📅 date-fns

date-fns is a modern JavaScript date utility library that provides the most comprehensive, yet simple and consistent toolset for manipulating JavaScript dates in a browser & Node.js.

In layman's terms, it is a library that provides a large number of functions that allows us to easily manipulate dates in web-based projects.

I started working on this project last week when I noticed that there was an open issue requesting Malay language support. The issue was considered claimed but seemed abandoned and thus I decided to claim it.

Firstly, I have to mention that the work done is not purely translation per se but I decided that the Translation tag is the nearest match. I'd happy to hear suggestions on this in the comments section. Thank you!

💻 What I actually did

When I first started, I decided to follow the project maintainer's idea of cloning the Indonesian locale and translating the strings across around 8 files to the Malay language. But while modifying them, I noticed that dates in Indonesia does not exactly follow the same format as Malaysia: e.g. First Day of the Week. Therefore, in order to make sure I did not miss any other slights, I cross-referenced each date format with LocalePlanet.

Once that was done, I compiled and executed the tests absent-mindedly but to my surprise, the tests returned no errors! I opened the tests.js file to notice that calls to the locale specific tests were skipped. I checked the tests file for a few other locales and noticed that quite a few others also skipped tests.

describe.skip('id locale', function () { ...

I had some time in hand and thus decided to rewrite the tests specific to Malaysian locale and was glad that I did. I learned that certain notations of dates such as: 4th April 1986 have no valid translation to Malay. I skipped that particular test since the module that provides that particular call was not opened for localisation and the notation itself is hardly ever used in Malaysia.

All in all, it was not a particularly tough work but I'm sure I can impart the knowledge I gained when localising any other projects that interest me.

✎ Tracking work done at Github

Github Pull Request

For more details, here is a link to my Pull Request at the project's repository: https://github.com/date-fns/date-fns/pull/605

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Thank you for your attention 😊

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7 years ago in #utopian-io by zyten (43)

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knowledges (69) 7 years ago (edited)

Thanks for your contribution. We cannot approve this. However, we will approve once you have made the following changes

Remove the "Shout out to fellow Malaysians"

Change the category to "Translation"

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zyten (43) 7 years ago (edited)

Hi, I did indeed select Translation as the category. I double-checked by editing the post just now. I'm not sure if it is sure if it is showing up as something else to the public but I see Translation for : date-fns in my browser..

As for the "Shout out to fellow Malaysian" section, it is not my intention for it to come out as spam. I do not personally own the repository in question nor do I benefit commercially from it but I felt that I could use some help from locals (Malaysian developers). Therefore, I'm hoping to keep it with perhaps a rephrased section title? However, if it definitively breaks Utopian rules, I can remove it.

Thank you for the quick reply!

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