Add i18n support

[gaecoli]

I think we need to add multilingual support so that everyone can use this product better

[justinclift]

Yeah, that's a good idea. Most of the multilingual stuff I've seen before uses some form of token and look up table to achieve it.

That doesn't always work out well for languages that are right-to-left (eg Arabic, Hebrew), or those which are vertical (Chinese, Korean, Japanese). Doing a quick search online now, it seems like at least Chinese, Korean, and Japanese are ok to be written horizontally these days, so that might not be all that much of a problem.

For our needs, we probably only need to do the web interface stuff. So, a javascript only based system (rather than needing to include Python) should be fine.

Thoughts? 😄

[Avey777]

recommend this：
https://github.com/tolgee/tolgee-platform

[gaecoli]

Yes. Just javascript.

[justinclift]

Hmmm, to me that looks like the wrong end of it.

Shouldn't we use Launchpad or an existing online service for the actual translation?

I was more thinking about using a library for doing the text lookup and string display in our web interface.

[gaecoli]

Hmmm, to me that looks like the wrong end of it.

Shouldn't we use Launchpad or an existing online service for the actual translation?

I was more thinking about using a library for doing the text lookup and string display in our web interface.

You are right!

[justinclift]

Cool. As a data point, my mention of Launchpad above is only because I used to use it for translation strings many years ago.

I haven't touched it since then though, so it's completely possible there are much better options around. 😄