Choco: internationalization / localization

[ferventcoder]

It's probably time to start the conversation on localization of choco itself.

Proposal

• All messages that are info and above should be localized.
  
  
  
  • Errors first as they present the most
  
  
  • Debug / Trace messages stay in English
  
  
• Help text should be localized

Open Questions:

• [ ] Capture detailed log in English?
• [ ] Capture summary log in Locale?
• [ ] Switch to explicitly force English output?
• [ ] Do we keep config / feature names in English for simplicity?
• [ ] Should we set documentation in the config file in language of the user? What do we do if there are multiple users who might log in?
• [ ] do we allow commands to run based on the language? e.g. choco search but search is in locale of the user.

[mwallner]

Capture detailed log in English? -> YES
Capture summary log in Locale? -> YES
Switch to explicitly force English output? -> YES
Do we keep config / feature names in English for simplicity? -> YES
Should we set documentation in the config file in language of the user? What do we do if there are multiple users who might log in? -> MAYBE

I vote NO for "do we allow commands to run based on the language? e.g. choco search but search is in locale of the user."

[mwallner]

happy to help with the German translation btw ;-)

[magol]

I'm can help with the Swedish translation :-)

[AdmiringWorm]

And I can help with the Norwegian Bokmål translation 😃

[gep13]

I can help with the English US to English GB translation 😄

[KovalevArtem]

How is the translation implemented now?

I suggest using Weblate. It is a very convenient and completely free service for open source projects.

[mwallner]

Thanks for your suggestion, - we're currently using Transifex (also free for OSS) and afaik it's working well enough :-)

-- edit: thought this Issue was a 'ChocolateyGUI' one /sorry/

[KovalevArtem]

https://www.transifex.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-gui/
_For those who are too lazy to search_