Internationalisation (I18n)

[almereyda]

As a long time Hypothesis user since many years, I am astonished how the annotation layer for the web, which is presumably global, does not have internationalisation (i18n) measures in place.

As a user from another language space than the Anglican one, I need to set or autodetect the locale, in order to allow for collaboration with non-english speakers. (Yes, they exist!)

Are there any plans from the team and the many many partners to open up the community and tool for non-english speaking people on earth?

This issue was opened, since I didn't find a precursor upon searching the issues and discussions here.

[robertknight]

There are a number of existing issues related to this, the last of which I would treat as the main one: #4656, hypothesis/h#4575, hypothesis/product-backlog#324.

[almereyda]

Thanks @robertknight! I was searching only in this repository here for internationalisation in British English, why I might not have found them. I will subscribe to those right away.

The term internationalisation is also a little broader than translation alone, as it might affect RTL and CJK languages as well.

I'm closing this in favour of the internationalization discussion in the backlog. (Using the AE version of the word here, so others might find this issue easily).

• Investigate how to support internationalization in the Hypothesis client product-backlog#324