Unclear how to use custom locales in project about rails HOT 5 CLOSED

Hi @noon-ng,

As you mentioned, underscores are certainly the issue here. GetText doesn't manage them correctly and we should have mentioned that in the README and blog post (we will!).

You can't create the custom languages in the UI, but if you add them into your config file, these custom target languages will be created for you.

Were you able to initialize your project correctly?

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Hi @MichaelHoste, thanks for getting back to me. Yup -- it works as intended.

Now to figure out how multiple locales can be combined at the I18n level :)

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I'm glad it worked!

I'm not sure what you mean by "combined locales" but maybe this page on i18n fallbacks will help: https://github.com/ruby-i18n/i18n/wiki/Fallbacks

I'll leave this ticket open until we update the docs 😄

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Ace @MichaelHoste!

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Some progress -- I think the issue was that the custom locale I was trying to use had underscores in it. Here's my breaking config/initializers/translation.rb

TranslationIO.configure do |config|
  config.api_key        = '...'
  config.source_locale  = 'en'
  config.target_locales = ['en-not_ready_on']
end

This raises a GetText::Tools::MsgInit::ValidationError: Locale 'en-not_ready_on' is invalid. Please check if your specified locale is usable. when running rake translation:init.

If I remove the underscores from the target locale name (to en-notreadyon), it works fine.

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