Limits:

Hard limits:

The compiled binary translation files cannot be larger than 4GB
Translations:
- YAML and JSON files must be valid utf8
- A translation string cannot be larger than 64KB unless global_settings.AllowBigStrings is true
- A Translation ID cannot be larger than 64KB
- A Namespace name cannot be longer than 255 bytes
- Variables:
  - Names cannot be longer than 255 bytes
  - Cannot have more than 255 variables per translation string
  - Printf format specifiers numbers cannot be larger than 255
- Plural function Operators:
  - Numbers following operators can be between 0 and 255
  - The second number of the Between operator can be at most 63 higher than the first number
  - There cannot be more than 255 operators on a translation

Soft limits:

These limits have been introduced to protect systems from badly formed translation files, but they can be changed in the source code

The total length of all the translation strings together is capped at 3.5GB
The total number of Plural function operators is capped at 1 million
The total number of namespaces is capped at 1,000
The total number of translations is capped at 1 million
The total length of all the translation IDs together is capped at 32MB
The total length of all the namespace names together is capped at 1MB
Embedded Static Translations cannot recurse more than 100 times

Build optimizations

When building with this library:
- If you include -tags gol10n_read_compiled_only, then only the functionality to read compiled files is included. This cuts 100KB-150KB from your executable.
- If you include -ldflags "-s" this will decrease your executable size by stripping the symbol table.

Contributing to this project

Make sure files are ran through gofmt -s before submitting pull requests. I’m trying to keep the at 100%.
This project is licensed under the 3-clause BSD