Localising¶

So your bot has grown, and now you need to ~~localize~~ localise your bot. Well thank god we support localisation then, huh?

To clarify; localisation is a feature of application commands that discord offers, this means the same command will have different names and descriptions depending on the user's locale settings.

How its made:¶

Let's take this nice and simple hello command

import interactions

@interactions.slash_command(name="hello")
async def hello_cmd(ctx: interactions.SlashContext):
    await ctx.send(f"Hello {ctx.author.display_name}")

This command was immensely popular, and now we have some 🇫🇷 French users. Wouldn't it be nice if we could speak their language.

import interactions
from interactions import LocalisedName

@interactions.slash_command(name=LocalisedName(english_us="hello", french="salut"))
async def hello_cmd(ctx: interactions.SlashContext):
    await ctx.send(f"Hello {ctx.author.display_name}")

All we need to do is set the field to a Localised object, and interactions.py and discord wil handle the rest for you. For extra flavour lets make this command more dynamic.

import interactions
from interactions import LocalisedName

@interactions.slash_command(name=LocalisedName(english_us="hello", french="salut"))
async def hello_cmd(ctx: interactions.SlashContext):
    await ctx.send(f"{ctx.invoked_name} {ctx.author.display_name}")

Simply by changing "hello" to ctx.invoked_name the command will always use whatever the user typed to greet them. If you want to know what locale the user is in, simply use ctx.locale.

This will work for any object with a name or description field. Simply use LocalisedDesc instead for descriptions. For example, you can localise options, choices, and subcommands.