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Multi language support for ingredients #2254

Open nickinzon opened 1 year ago

nickinzon commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I do live in a bilingual household - while my wife is a native English speaker, I am a native German speaker. Therefore our recipe database contains equally recipes in English and in German. I do really like the shopping list feature, but our ingredient list is quite a mix of German and then English terms for the same ingredient. That makes the use of the shopping list feature quite a struggle and takes away the convenience it could have to automatically compose your weekly shopping list.

Describe the solution you'd like

One solution I could imagine, is to add an item to the context menu within the ingredient editor (/list/food/), similar to the "Zusammenführen" feature. In this case it would recognize that the respective ingredients are equivalent but different languages. No item would be deleted, but in the shopping list it would show the ingredient only once (in one language).

Describe alternatives you've considered

No response

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vabene1111 commented 1 year ago

hi, thanks for the feedback. Multi Language support has been requested a few times troughout the years and while I think its a great feature it will bring with it a very large amount of complexity in the whole system since, to make it consistent, such a feature would need to be integrated for alle modules and also all kinds of objects (food, unit, keywords, instructions and possibly more).

This isn't to say that i don't want to do it, it just means that certain other features with relevance for more people will certainly take precedence in the development process.

nickinzon commented 1 year ago

Okay! Thank you for the feedback!

lyndametref commented 1 month ago

I am trying to achieve this result too. I have recipes in 3 languages and I would like to have food equivalence made between languages.

I am not yet very familiar with how food inherits from a patent: will it work to have all translations of a food under a single parent, will it work to consolidate them in the shopping list? Will properties be inherited?

I don't think I need to know which entry corresponds to which language but at least having the shopping list consolidated would be a great help.