Ticket UUID: | 91683f49e8c168ba8f349a1e83cc36a2b7b249c1 | ||
Title: | Mechanism for i18n the product UI | ||
Status: | Open | Type: | Feature_Request |
Severity: | Minor | Priority: | |
Subsystem: | Resolution: | Open | |
Last Modified: | 2010-02-19 12:29:49 | ||
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Description & Comments: | |||
There is no obvious mechanism by which one might localize the UI in Fossil. If I want to have Spanish-speakers (who don't know English well) use the product, I currently need to go through all the menus etc., and manually change them. This is extremely time-consuming and prone to failure.
I would like to request we use something like GNU gettext (which is very easy to use), and then whoever wants to contribute a localization may do so. Then, one only needs a way to indicate to Fossil that it should use a specific locale (for example, adding "locale=es" as query parameters). ron added on 2010-02-10 11:06:23: Another possibility might be to leverage the SQLite backend and just store the translations there; but then, we would have to engineer a reasonable way for the data to get populated, and that adds (I think) quite a bit of complexity. anonymous added on 2010-02-19 12:29:49: |