Internationalisation?

[jedfonner]

Internationalisation?

[jedfonner]

I submitted a Feature Suggestion: Include user's language in body of outgoing slash command request. Please add your vote to this to encourage Mattermost to take it into consideration.

[jedfonner]

Great idea. I'm a little stumped on how to get the user's locale from the request. AFAIK Mattermost does not send it in the initial request to create the poll. So I'm not sure I can make the i18n dynamic.

I will work on moving the text into a separate json map using ICU Message syntax. Best case we can figure out how to dynamically pull the right text. Worst case I can add instructions to define the locale as an environment variable.

[jedfonner]

I've created a branch with basic support for specifying a language as an environment config.

However now I need help with the actual translations. Anyone available to help translate in German, French, etc before I merge it into master?

[jedfonner]

@DarckCrystale and elpatron68 - you guys rock! Thanks so much. I just merged your PRs into my initial PR and merged all of it to master.

[elpatron68]

The easiest way is to edit https://github.com/jedfonner/MattermostOnFire/blob/i18next/functions/translations.json and provide it as Gist (https://gist.github.com/) or at Pastebin.

Otherwise, you could clone this repository, checkout the i18next branch, make your changes, commit them and create a pull request.

[LucileDT]

As a French, I can say we have some French people who would be happy to have the poll tool in French too! So I think that it would be better if the project was prepared to support multiple languages and then set up something like https://crowdin.com to allow non tech people to translate it in their own language (Crowdin is used for Open Broadcaster Software, I have an account on it and it's pretty easy to use, easier than make a ton of pull requests).

[DarckCrystale]

@jedfonner did you contact the Mattermost dev team to ask them?

[elpatron68]

Thanks! I will translate to german.

[DarckCrystale]

I can translate to French if needed and if "how to do" is explained :)

[DarckCrystale]

Thanks!

[DarckCrystale]

Done for me and pull request submitted :)

[elpatron68]

Just one last question: Updating a running installation to support i18n is the same way than deploying a fresh one?

[jedfonner]

@elpatron68 Pretty much. Update your local working directory to the latest code, then set your mattermost.language environment variable as explained in the new Readme section, and then run firebase deploy (luckily it's all JavaScript so nothing to build locally!)