Multi-lingual Support?

[CreativeNotice]

I see you've got the data under an 'en' directory. Are you setup already to support multiple languages? If so I think Team CF Advance could gather some devs from Brazil, at least, to work on a secondary language. Thoughts?

[pfreitag]

There is nothing other then the seperation into an en directory. Multilingual support could certainly be added but it would take a really dedicated translator to get that going. I did contact team cf advance about adding CF11 docs and they have helped a bit there.

[CreativeNotice]

I may play with that on a fork.
Could you briefly describe the hurdles you foresee?

[pfreitag]

Awesome, that would be cool!

I don't think it would be terribly complicated, the main thing you would need to do is edit the files in /views to provide a way to show localized strings, instead of just hard coded english. There is not too much translation needed there.

I would probably setup subdomains for each language, eg: es.cfdocs.org I think we should use the ISO-639-1 language codes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1 I don't think getting into dialects (eg en-US, en-GB, en-CA) would be necessary.

The big part of the job is creating all the json files, we need to figure out what to do if a doc is there in one language but not another, 302 redirect, or show the english doc using the language's localized view?

[CreativeNotice]

If a doc didn't exist in the user's selected language, we could load the en version with an extra call to action "Help translate this page!" banner. It could link to a github wiki page with details on how to help translate.

[pfreitag]

Good idea.

[pfreitag]

Going to close this, as there hasn't been much interest in multi-lingual support.