Localization is hard, error prone, and slow. It requires learning many technical skills with GitHub and creates barriers to localization.
What's the design idea?
The overarching concept is to create a localization experience that has features such as:
Entering a localization mode to select strings to localize
See multiple languages side by side to help translate
Get machine translation as a starting point
See out of date, missing, and invalid strings in a to do list
See translations in the context in which they are rendered
Submit translations for inclusion without using GitHub
Start new locales
This would be a major maintenance feature, but could greatly improve the localization experience and engage audiences that aren't willing or able to learn all of the skills for contributing with the current infrastructure.
Design specification
(This section should be included after a design proposal is ready and approved, and the buildable tag is added. This text can remain until then. Designers should add their proposal here, not in a comment).
What's the problem?
Localization is hard, error prone, and slow. It requires learning many technical skills with GitHub and creates barriers to localization.
What's the design idea?
The overarching concept is to create a localization experience that has features such as:
This would be a major maintenance feature, but could greatly improve the localization experience and engage audiences that aren't willing or able to learn all of the skills for contributing with the current infrastructure.
Design specification
(This section should be included after a design proposal is ready and approved, and the
buildabletag is added. This text can remain until then. Designers should add their proposal here, not in a comment).