How can developers use AI to translate JSON multilingual files without breaking code?
“In the software internationalization (i18n) workflow, directly translating JSON files can easily cause key mistranslation or the loss of interpolated variables (such as {name}), leading to program crashes.”
Root Cause Analysis
Key-Value Separation and Structure Protection
The algorithm intelligently distinguishes between JSON 'keys' and 'values', translating only the value portion. Regardless of the level of nesting, JSON syntax structures—such as braces and commas—remain fully intact, ensuring the file can be directly parsed by code.
Variable and placeholder locking
Automatically detects and locks standard placeholders within strings (e.g., %s, {{count}}, {user_id}). AI models recognize the syntactic role of these variables, preserving them as-is and accurately placing them within the translated output.
Consistency in UI terminology
Leveraging glossary functionality ensures that high-frequency UI terms, such as “Submit” and “Cancel,” are translated consistently across different JSON files, maintaining a unified user interface.
Final Solution Summary
A translation engine purpose-built for developers, enabling multilingual version iteration with the same rigor and efficiency as code compilation.