Archinstall supports multiple languages, which depend on translations coming from the community :)
Before starting a new language translation be aware that a font for that language may not be available on the ISO.
Fonts that are using a different character set than Latin will not be displayed correctly. If those languages want to be selected than a proper font has to be set manually in the console.
All available console fonts can be found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts and they
can be set with setfont LatGrkCyr-8x16
New languages can be added simply by creating a new folder with the proper language abbreviation (see list languages.json if unsure).
Run the following command to create a new template for a language
mkdir -p <abbr>/LC_MESSAGES/ && touch <abbr>/LC_MESSAGES/base.po
After that run the script ./locales_generator.sh <lang_abbr> it will automatically populate the new base.po file with the strings that
need to be translated into the new language.
For example the base.po might contain something like the following now
#: lib/user_interaction.py:82
msgid "Do you really want to abort?"
msgstr ""
The msgid is the identifier of the string in the code as well as the default text to be displayed, meaning that if no
translation is provided for a language then this is the text that is going to be shown.
To perform translations for a language this file can be edited manually or the neat poedit can be used (https://poedit.net/).
If editing the file manually, write the translation in the msgstr part
#: lib/user_interaction.py:82
msgid "Do you really want to abort?"
msgstr "Wollen sie wirklich abbrechen?"
After the translations have been written, run the script once more ./locales_generator.sh and it will auto-generate the base.mo file with the included translations.
After that you're all ready to go and enjoy Archinstall in the new language :)