Discussion about the Internationalisation effort for Zed

[ncs-pl]

This is a following of #7433 (related to ticket #7409).

Hello Zed team,

While I do understand your point in the merge request's reply that changes should first be discussed, I would like to advocate for implementing an internationalisation system within the editor early in the development process since I believe it avoids scale issues that happen when implemented later, e.g. the need to update 100 strings v. update 100000k strings.

My main objective with the creation of this discussion is to spread the idea of i18n within the team, however, I can also recommend a few ideas to implement such as feature.
Indeed, unlike the rust_i18n recommended by Carlos Lopez (@foxkdev) in the ticket, I do encourage the adoption of Mozilla's Project Fluent, which is the result of various researches in the domain of translating software.

In hope the team reconsider the choice against early i18n support,

Nicolas Paul

[foxkdev]

Thanks to create Discussion about this,

Agree with priorize now vs after, now impact its better vs 1 month, or 1 year.

Im investigate Project Fluent, and i18n have pluralization feature, other features I think are not "better" to translators, In my experience, translators want .PO file or .json or platform to translate texts directly and not think in pluralization, genders etc

And in this app, I think only require pluralization, not others, But for me fluent are a valid solution too.

Agree to reconsider the early i18n support.

[ncs-pl]

Thanks for your reply Carlos!

Please tag me whenever plans for i18n starts if any help is needed (both translation and code implementation)!

[xnousnow]

Is this still being considered?

[saihaze]

Seems that weblate supports fluent

[chatterzhao]

Is this discussion still alive? I'm trying to implement i18n with extensions, and I think this solution is more flexible, and you can switch it on the fly instead of compiling it

[ice909]

Is this discussion still alive? I'm trying to implement i18n with extensions, and I think this solution is more flexible, and you can switch it on the fly instead of compiling it

Does Zed currently support extensions similar to VS Code’s language packs (for example, installing a Simplified Chinese language pack to localize the UI)?

[Shuai-S]

Hello Zed team,
Please ask if there has been progress in i18n, as more and more people around the world are trying to use Zed now, but the existing language barriers are hindering many from deepening their use, Is there consideration to accelerate the implementation of i18n?