Easy way of one word translation?

Question

There is a code added somewhere amongst Wordpress theme php files:

function functionFunction() {
  var ts = CRM.ts();
  theButton = 
  "<a id=thebutton href=/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=6>" 
  + ts("The Button to translate") 
  + "</a>";
  return theButton;    
}

A website is multisite + multilingual ( and none of the languages is English ), therefore The Button to translate needs to be translated to all enabled languages and be preserved during l10n updates.

There are some recipies here https://explore.transifex.com/civicrm/civicrm/ and and here https://docs.civicrm.org/dev/en/latest/extensions/translation/#for-developers-generate-po-and-mo-files-for-your-extension and also here https://github.com/civicrm/civistrings and there How to add additional custom translation for a payment processor?.

However none of these addresses the situation where we need to translate a few lines of text without messing with MO/PO, gettext/poedit, etc., etc. It looks like the closest one could get is to create an "empty" extension, the single purpose of which would be MO files accommodation - and even in this case we need to "merge" the extension translation file with the rest of it, which seems to be a bit too much for a small amount of text.

Am I missing something here? Any alternatives/workarounds/hacks/fast&dirty tricks?

Answer 1

Following on from comments, if this is custom code then you can use CRM.config.locale and hardcode the translation there, e.g.

var text = 'banana';
if (CRM.config.locale == 'fr_FR') {
  text = 'banane';
} elseif (CRM.config.locale == 'de_DE') {
  text = ... etc
...
}
theButton = 
  "<a id=thebutton href=/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id=6>" 
  + text 
  + "</a>";

Answer 2

Last I remember Administer - Customize - Word Replacements works for this it's just not obvious how to enter the text for the other languages. You need to switch to the language first then load the form. And the left hand side is always the en_US word.