Cwa-documentation: Which languages will be supported and based on which criteria they get selected

[benekuehn]

What is missing

It is missing on which facts the selection of further supported languages will be based to reach the most people possible living in Germany but not speaking german sufficiently.

Why should it be included

The selection should be made based on official destatis information publicly available to eliminate any selection bias and prevent discrimination.

Where should it be included

E01.06 3.

[Lhendrichs]

I have a lot of non German Speakers in my Team. They are from all over the world but everyone speaks Englisch. That Language would be highly apreciated!

[tkowark]

@Lhendrichs English and German are both supported in the initial release of the app.

[benekuehn]

@Lhendrichs and the English version works perfectly as I have my iPhone set to English and therefore use the live version in English right now.

[Lhendrichs]

ok I will ask my team mates to try it. Thanks

Am Di., 16. Juni 2020 um 10:33 Uhr schrieb benekuehn <
[email protected]>:

@Lhendrichs https://github.com/Lhendrichs and the English version works
perfectly as I have my iPhone set to English and therefore use the live
version in English right now.

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[Lhendrichs]

My Friend just tried with his phone set to Chinese.. it will show the App in German. Maybe is there a way to redirect a Chinese Phone to Englisch instead of German (or create a Language selection button)?.

[Lhendrichs]

@Lhendrichs English and German are both supported in the initial release of the app.

right but you can't select it and it looks like a none English Phone (for instance Chinese) will always show German.

[tkowark]

@Lhendrichs if that's the case, could you kindly open an issue in the respective app repository:

• iOS
• Android

According to the scoping document, this would be a bug (https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/blob/master/scoping_document.md) (E01.06)

[Lhendrichs]

Thanks Thomas. Bug report submitted: https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-app-ios/issues/636

[darkdragon-001]

There should be a setting which allows the user to select the language manually if he/she doesn't like the default.

[benekuehn]

@darkdragon-001 filed a request for this one almost a month ago. https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-documentation/issues/153

[tkowark]

New languages are constantly being added, e.g., PRs for Turkish, russian and arabic are already underway.
Please use https://github.com/corona-warn-app/cwa-backlog/issues/4 to track upcoming languages.