Prepare app texts for translation

Prompt that makes an application translatable: language files, placeholders, plurals and formats per language. Paste it into an AI tool of your choice, which then prepares the app for translation.

Topic: Apps & prototypes
Type: Prompt
Level: Intermediate
Time: about 10 min

Results depend on the tool, the model and what you enter.

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Findings: 46 hard-coded texts, 9 of them in error messages and 4 in email templates Language file (excerpt): cart.empty = Your cart is empty. cart.count = {count, plural, one {# item} other {# items}} order.delivery = Expected to arrive on {date}. Changed: "You have " + n + " items" → one key with a placeholder Formats: dates and prices through the formatting function per language Layout: the "Checkout" button has a fixed width → breaks in longer languages Test: pseudo-language with 40% longer texts

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Your prompt

Prepare the following application for more languages.
Application: [Application]
New languages: [Languages]
Stack: [Stack]
Approach: 1. Find texts that are hard-coded, including error messages, emails and image captions. 2. Propose a structure for language files with descriptive keys. 3. Replace sentences stitched together from pieces with whole sentences that use named placeholders. 4. Handle plural forms through each language's rules instead of your own if-then logic. 5. Output dates, times, numbers and currencies through the platform's formatting functions. 6. Name places where longer texts or right-to-left scripts can break the layout.
Output: list of findings, an example language file, rules for the team and test cases.

Take particular care to ask for whole sentences with context instead of word fragments and leave formats to the platform.

Before you answer, check: Are all instructions met? If key information is missing or a placeholder in square brackets is still in the text, ask instead of guessing. Mark assumptions as assumptions.

Prepare the following application for more languages.
Application: [Application]
New languages: [Languages]
Stack: [Stack]
Approach: 1. Find texts that are hard-coded, including error messages, emails and image captions. 2. Propose a structure for language files with descriptive keys. 3. Replace sentences stitched together from pieces with whole sentences that use named placeholders. 4. Handle plural forms through each language's rules instead of your own if-then logic. 5. Output dates, times, numbers and currencies through the platform's formatting functions. 6. Name places where longer texts or right-to-left scripts can break the layout.
Output: list of findings, an example language file, rules for the team and test cases.

Take particular care to ask for whole sentences with context instead of word fragments and leave formats to the platform.

Before you answer, check: Are all instructions met? If key information is missing or a placeholder in square brackets is still in the text, ask instead of guessing. Mark assumptions as assumptions.

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Copy the finished prompt into an AI tool of your choice.
Switch on a pseudo-language with longer texts and special characters for testing. Hard-coded and cut-off texts then stand out immediately.

Why does this work?

Translators can only do good work when whole sentences with context sit in the language files. Sentences assembled from word fragments cannot be built correctly in many languages.

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Give every key a short note on where the text appears and how much space it has.

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