Localization

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Because WeeWX-JAS allows the end user to select the language, it does not leverage WeeWX's translation infrastructure. As much as possible, WeeWX-JAS does use the same constructs as outline in the customization guide. The base internationalization is in the appropriate lang files.

Because charts can be added to a WeeWX-JAS installation, additional text might need to be translated. This could be additional titles, labels, etc. These additional translations could be added to the lang files, but then they would be overwritten when the skin is updated. To get around this, WeeWX-JAS defines a location in weewx.conf to put these translations, [[[lang](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[[lang)]] in the [[Extras](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[Extras)] section.

If a new chart named, memoryUsage is defined that displays 3 series of data, mem_size, mem_rss, and mem_shared; the lang section for English would look like the following.

    [jas](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/jas)
        [[Extras](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[Extras)]
            [[[lang](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[[lang)]]
                [[[[en](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[[[en)]]]
                    [[[[[Labels](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[[[[Labels)]]]]
                        [[[[[[Generic](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[[[[[Generic)]]]]]
                            # The chart displays 3 data series, mem_size, mem_rss, and mem_share
                            mem_size = Memory Size
                            mem_rss = Memory RSS
                            mem_share = Memory Share
                    [[[[[Texts](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[[[[Texts)]]]]
                            # The title of the memoryUsage chart
                            memoryUsage_title = Usage

Dates and Times

Formatting of dates and times are also done using javascript. The momentjs library is used. Because of this the format to designate the layout of dates and times is different.

WeeWX-JAS also allows for the format of dates and times to be dependent on the context it is being displayed in. For example the date shown as an x-axis label might be different than what is shown in the tooltip. This results in date and time formats also being defined in the 'lang.conf' file under the [Texts] section. If one wishes to change the format but does not want or need to translate the skin, the weewx.conf can be updated to accomplish this. It would look something like this.

[StdReport]
.
.
.
    [jas](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/jas)
        skin = jas
.
.
.
        [[Texts](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[Texts)]
            [[[aggregate_interval_none](/bellrichm/weewx-jas/wiki/[[aggregate_interval_none)]]
                tooltip_x              = HH:mm
                xaxis_label            = HH:mm    
                label                  = HH:mm 

Or one could put it in the [Extras][[lang]] section of weewx.conf as defined above.