Option to specify posts language

[Dehelssey]

I've been told that my posts were marked as "english" even tho most of them are french.

On Mastodon you can state a default language for your posts. You can also change it when writing a new one

I didn't find any similar feature in user's settings, and it's definitely not available when typing a post.

Not sure if it's a Mangane issue (missing UI to trigger the feature) or a back-end issue (like the feature is totally missing on Akkoma itself)

[Cl0v1s]

I have to investigate this since the language field sent by akkoma is always empty. It status language doest not seem to be handled by Akkoma correctly.

[ghost]

I would like to be able to specify the language in ISO 639-3 code so that it can be used for languages with few speakers.

[Cl0v1s]

Using 639-3 is a good idea, however we should keep in mind that someone 639-3 countries can break mastodon compatibility because of Eugen's opinionated position on languages

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/18538#issuecomment-1139639976

[last-partizan]

This would be extremely useful.

And, also worth having ability to specify default "Post language", independently of "Interface language".

I have created following issue to track this in Akkoma: https://akkoma.dev/AkkomaGang/akkoma/issues/750#issuecomment-11685

[last-partizan]

Oh, turned out we don't need any backend changes for this.

I'll start by trying to add this setting to akkoma-fe, and then here.

[Cl0v1s]

Resolved in https://github.com/BDX-town/Mangane/pull/332