ddev-locale

• What is ddev-locale?
• Why ddev-locale?
• Getting started
• Configuration
  • Change timezone
  • Change locale
• Components of the repository
• Contributing

What is ddev-locale?

DDEV-locale is design to setup the DDEV web container for a specific locale. In additional, it serves as documentation for DDEV internationalization.

DDEV has 2 related locale settings:

• timezone.
• system locale.

This addon, by default, sets both of these to Japan (Japanese). Why Japan? Japan has a single timezone and a single encoding locale. It is also where my team is based.

Why ddev-locale?

DDEV allows encoding to be set globally (via web-environment). Timezone, however, is a per-project setting.

As of writing, DDEV includes all language files which significantly inflates the web server container size. If/when the language files are removed, this addon will be updated to install the language pack.

Getting started

1. Install this addon.

    ddev addon get tyler36/ddev-locale
    ddev restart
   

Configuration

To change either setting, you need to update .ddev/config.locale.yaml.

1. Remove ## ddev-generated from the file. This will prevent DDEV from updating it.

Change timezone

1. To change timezones, update the timezone line with the TZ identifier for your desired location. See List of tz database time zones

Change locale

1. To update the language, update the web_environment line.

This contains up to 3 parts:

• Language code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes).
• Territory code (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1#Codes). Separate from language with _.

A 3rd code-set value (separated with .) is optional.

For example: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8

• English language.
• Australian territory.
• UTF-8 code-set.

Components of the repository

• config.locale.yaml: the settings that are merging with the project’s configuration.
• An install.yaml file that describes how to install the service or other component.
• A test suite in test.bats that makes sure the service continues to work as expected.
• Github actions setup so that the tests run automatically when you push to the repository.

Contributing

PRs are welcome, especially if they contain tests.

Contributed and maintained by @tyler36