Misskey: Default language

[incognico]

See second comment for better solution.

It would be cool to be able to set the instance language globally to english (for all users - well if they don't override it in options) and for logged out visitors.

Or alternatively be able to set a global instance language and allowed languages (whitelist) which get displayed when the browser sends the language string.

Or even better only allow displaying of languages who have >95% translations available (which currently would be en and jp).

This is because most translations are very incomplete and would display Japanese strings. For example going to missekey with a de-DE browser would pretty much display almost everything in Japanese, but for German (or even all non-Japanese) users English would be at least understandable.

I thought for my instance it would be good if I could set the global language to english but have it displayed in japanese if someone with jp-JP browser visits it. The other languages don't really matter currently.

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[incognico]

Or just an option that allows to change which language to fallback to if there are no translations available. EN|JP switch. Like lang setting Automatic (Fallback to JP) and Automatic (Fallback to EN).

[pwFoo]

Default language should be en for usability...

[tamaina]

There is many Japanese people who dislike English, so I don't think make default lang en is the best solution.

[mei23]

First of all, Misskey's default(fallback) language is english.
But, non translated part in each language file may appears as japanese.

[incognico]

For my instance I just removed the locales who are not >95% translated so it automatically will use English and not the locale with Japanese strings. It's a good workaround.

[tamaina]

Sorry, I was mistaking the gist but I understand.
I agree that untranslated texts should be written in English, not Japanese.