i18n

[ianmcorvidae]

Riker should be totally i18n-friendly from the beginning. Wherever possible, assuming musicbrainz-server is ever satisfactorily internationalized, translations should be aligned with other MB tools such as Picard and the server.

[kepstin]

This will consist of several parts:

1. Translation of player user interface strings.
2. Translation of database fields like languages, countries, gender, AR names, etc.
3. (optional) ability to use localized aliases for artists, works.

[leftmostcat]

Depending on the UI toolkit, interface strings should generally be easily internationalized. Both gtk and Qt have solid i18n through gettext. There are also standardized i18n packages for ISO-639, ISO-3166, and ISO-15924 that can and should be used. Idly wondering if it would be possible to have MBS use gettext so we could create a similar package for AR names.

[ianmcorvidae]

MBS uses gettext already, for what limited translations we have. I may be doing i18n for MBS for SoC next summer; that's a good idea for that project.