NGettext for Unity

Implementation of the NGettext .NET implementation of the GNU/Gettext library for Unity.

Installation

Requirements

First of all, you need to install NGettext through NuGet. For example:

PM> Install-Package NGettext

Project Files

Now, copy the ngettext-unity folder to your Unity assets folder.

Example Usage

Assuming the following files

We assume you use the default domain messages and thus have a messages.po file that is your French pot file. As follows: YourUnityProject/Assets/Resources/Locale/fr-FR/LC_MESSAGES/messages.po

With this content for example:

msgid ""
msgstr ""
"Project-Id-Version: master\n"
"POT-Creation-Date: 2018-08-06 07:52-0500\n"
"PO-Revision-Date: 2018-10-01 21:49+0200\n"
"MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n"
"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n"
"Plural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=(n > 1);\n"
"Last-Translator: \n"
"Language: fr_FR\n"

msgid "Hello, {0}!"
msgstr "Heyo, {0}!"

Now, you need to compile the pot file to a mo file as domain_mo.bytes, as follows: YourUnityProject/Assets/Resources/Locale/fr-FR/LC_MESSAGES/messages_mo.bytes.

Unity Controller Side

Now in Unity, you could do this:

NGettextUnity.Instance.LoadLocale("fr-FR");
Debug.Log(NGettextUnity.Catalog.GetString("Hello, {0}!", "World"));

If done successfully, Unity should print: Heyo, World!.

Going further

If you look under the tools folder, you will find tools that will allow you to quickly get Unity gettext ready files.