Feature request: Create your own Preferred Language List

[idanrm]

I think it would be great if you could edit the current list of preferred languages, i.e. each user creates their own preferred language list.

Thanks

[muzuiget]

The preferred languages is your browser preferred languages, you can add your languages in the browser setting page.

Doc: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/languages

[idanrm]

I understand, thank you. The preferred language list is indeed as configured in my browser, however Hebrew is configured in my browser but is missing in the extensions' preferred language list. What could be the issue, then?

Thanks

[muzuiget]

Switch the Dualsub setting option to All Available Languages, can you see the Hebrew menuitem?

[idanrm]

Yes, I can see it. I personally have no problem with continuing using the All Available Languages option, however maybe it's worth looking into this bug.

[muzuiget]

Hebrew has two language codes: he and iw.

I believe the issue arises because the browser uses he, while Dualsub uses iw, leading to he being treated as an unsupported language code and consequently filtered out.

[muzuiget]

You can test it in the DevTools:

[idanrm]

If so, then why does Dualsub use 'iw' instead of 'he'? As far as I can see, 'iw' is the old ISO-639 language abbreviation for Hebrew and 'he' is the new one. As a speaker of Hebrew, I seldom see 'iw' being used as the language abbreviation.

[muzuiget]

The current language code list was "copied" from Google many years ago. If backward compatibility is not a concern now, we can consider switching to he in the next version.

[muzuiget]

This is fixed in 2.23.0.