I'm using an HTML template that allows the use of highlighted (bold) texts applying the following format:
<h3><span class="semi-bold">Visit</span> details</h3>
That will be rendered as something like:
Visit details
I want to add an I18n layer to the title, but i find that in the different languages, the text highlighting order may vary:
(en) Visit details
(es) Detalles de visita
I find disgusting the idea of putting the HTML in the language files (i could like to use the strings in a different context):
en:
visit_details: '<span class="semi-bold">Visit</span> details'
es:
visit_details: 'Detalles de <span class="semi-bold">visita</span>'
Does Rails offer a better method to handle this kind of formatted i18n texts?
There is nothing stopping you to do as the following:
# view
t('menus.object_details', object: content_tag(:span, t('menus.visit'), class: 'semi-bold')).html_safe
# en.yml
en:
menus:
object_details: "%{object} details"
visit: "Visit"
# some_other_locale.yml
some_other_locale:
menus:
object_details: "Details %{object}"
visit: "Visit"
As you can see, the I18n file does not contain any hard-coded HTML element.
The trick here is how to handle masculine/feminine(/neutral) nouns (ex: French, German).