Multilingual comments

[tkuhn]

How should comments be handled in the multilingual case? The options are:

• Comments are specific to a language and only shown in the language they were written
• Users can translate comments into other languages (the original is shown for untranslated comments)
• Comments are not multilingual (current solution)
• Comments are disabled in the multilingual case

[Kaljurand]

I think the comments should be multilingual.

• When a comment is written then it is assigned the language that the writer has currently chosen.
• A user sees the content of the comment only if it is available in his language, otherwise there is an empty box with menu items
  • provide content
  • look at existing translations
• There should be some guidelines
  • If the comment exists in another language then any translation should reflect this content
  • The content of the comment should not be language specific (e.g. "The next sentence contains a syntax error.")
• In addition to having the notion of "original" comment, it would also be useful to have "most recently edited translation"