CSV Localization

General

The CSV format is not a well defined standard. There are several variations: field separators, quoting, escaping, encoding and others.

So Lingohub has defined a CSV standard that is suitable for localization and based on RFC4180.

Format

• encoding should be UTF­-8 (but you can export to other encodings)

• the markup follows the RFC4180 standard, which means:

  • comma (,) will be used as column separator

  • all values have to be quoted with double ­quotes (“)

  • quotes can be escaped using double double­ quotes, eg.: “Hello, “”Lingohub”””

  • the line ending is always CRLF

  • quoted values can span multiple lines

  • the placeholder syntax is: {placeholder_name}

• the first line is the header and must have the following columns:

  • “Title” constant

  • “Description” constant (this column is optional)

  • the next columns hold the ISO639-1 code for the languages in the file, eg.: “en”, “pt-BR”

Example

Additional example files can be accessed here.

"Title","Description","en","pl","de"
"settings","General Settings","Settings","Ustawienia","Einstellungen"
"has_placeholders","This example shows the usage of placeholders","Hello {username}","Cześć {username}","Hallo {username}"
"quotes","Quotes in content","Hello ""LingoHub""","Cześć ""LingoHub""","Hallo ""LingoHub"""
"linebreaks","an example for linebreaks","Here is a
linebreak","Oto 
nowa linea","Hier ist ein
Zeilenumbruch"

References

• RFC4180

• ISO639-1