Apply "Language" preference change to all windows and components

[per1234]

Describe the request

The "Language" menu of the File > Preferences dialog now offers a selection of languages the Arduino IDE user interface can be localized to (https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/pull/941).

🙂 The ideal user experience would be for localization to take effect universally immediately after the user changes this preference:

• All open windows
• Arduino CLI output

Describe the current behavior

1. Select File > New from the Arduino IDE menus.
2. Select File > Preferences... from the Arduino IDE menus.
3. Select a different language from the "Language" menu.
4. Click the OK button.
5. Wait for the window reload to finish.

🙁 The UI of other open IDE windows are still localized for the previous language preference:

1. Select Sketch > Verify/Compile from the Arduino IDE menus.
2. Wait for compilation to finish.

🙁 The messages from Arduino CLI shown in the "Output" view are still localized for the previous language preference:

Arduino IDE version

Original report

2.0.0-rc6-snapshot-b407d0a

Last verified with

9a6a457bc44fb16f646b9e61a9e8b336b3666412

Operating system

Windows, Ubuntu

Operating system version

Windows 10, Ubuntu 20.04

Additional context

Related

• https://github.com/arduino/arduino-ide/issues/1636

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Keywords

- localization - localized - l10n - internationalization - internationalized - i18n - translate - translation

Issue checklist

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• [X] I verified the feature was still missing when using the latest nightly build
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[tobozo]

I'm experiencing the same symptoms with Arduino IDE 2.0.3.

English was already set as the interface language, so I haven't actually changed anything to observe this issue.

LANG=en_GB.utf8
LANGUAGE=en_GB
LC_CTYPE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_TIME=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="en_GB.utf8"
LC_MONETARY=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="en_GB.utf8"
LC_PAPER=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_GB.UTF-8
LC_ADDRESS=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_TELEPHONE=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_MEASUREMENT=fr_FR.UTF-8
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_GB.UTF-8