Achieving internationalization

[Javasnob]

Hello everyone,

A couple of friends and I are working on a program, and we're in the planning stages right now. We've decided that we'd like the program to be able to use multiple languages, and allow support for others to be easy to add on. It's written in Lua, and the current idea I have drawn up is like this:

require('i18n')

require(LANGUAGE .. '_section')
prints(phrase)
  
en_section.lua:
phrase = "I like potatoes"

de_section.lua
phrase = "Ich habe gern Kartoffeln"

My question is this: Is there an easier way to do this kind of thing? Keeping track of which phrases are mapped to which variables could get painful.

Thanks for any and all help!

[Javasnob]

Nevermind; I think I figured out an efficient, non-confusing way to accomplish my goal.