LeastAuthority / destiny

Destiny – Cross-platform Magic Wormhole graphical client

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Add Internationalization #212

Open wuan opened 1 year ago

wuan commented 1 year ago

Why Internationalization?

Prepare app for translations to be ready any time.
Attract external contributions.

Requirements

All in app strings are collected in a central place and ready to add additional languages.
There is a solution allowing localized wordlists.
- This needs to be updated upstream first, see https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole-protocols/issues/31
We also have localized MOTD strings.

Details

App localization

Part of this will be finding a good framework which allows us to have a simple localization support

Requirements

Support for String keys
Some kind of code generation for the keys.
Support for language specific things:
- name templates
- date and time formats
- plural and number formats
- key references (linking/including other texts)
- modifiers (e. g. lower)
- fallback rules

PoCs

Easy Localization (#205 )

wuan commented 1 year ago

There is already an issue regarding use of localized wordlists: https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/214

meejah commented 1 year ago

Don't miss the linked discussion on https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole/issues/26 which reveals some technical and security issues with some proposed solutions.