[Feature Request] i18n.te doesnt look for global locales

Not sure if this a bug or a feature, but when I’m trying to check if global translation exists, te returns false for all translations, except component level locales.

Given global locale file en.yaml:

en:
  hello: 'Hello'

i18n.te('hello') returns false

In case I have hello tranlsation defined inside my component, it returns true as expected.

I’ve tried to check source code, and it seems te doesnt look for global locales intentionally.

Could you please confirm this, or should this be treated as a bug?

[vladra]

I can describe you my use case for this feature:

Sometimes backend returns list of error codes. On the UI side we try to translate them, and we do this dynamically. Because of big amount of different words to be translated we do this dynamically (translation lookup based on error code received from backend, like company.name), checking if error code exists in global locales. If it’s absent, we display general error message. Otherwise, error code translated, and human readable message is shown.

[kazupon]

That’s not bug. But it’s might be improved.

I personally think that te is not necessary. Because, we ship the application after we will test whether there is a translation missing. In the future, I’ll plan to remove the te from vue-i18n.