Multi-language pragmatic approach

[FrancescoBorzi]

My personal opinion: we went a bit too far with the multi-language support. As a result, we have many languages in our system but most of them aren't properly translated.

My suggestion: only keep the languages that are really needed. Looking at factors such as: how many people speak the language in the world and how many of them cannot actually speak English.

For example, Dutch and Swedish are languages only spoken in small countries and where the average level of English is very high (I hope I don't annoy anyone with this comment, which is rather a compliment) and I do not see any benefit in maintaining them inside Keira3.

On the other side, languages such as Spanish, Chinese, and Russian are spoken by many people around the world, so they should be our priority.

What are the opinions about this? I will keep this thread open for a while to collect feedback (if any) before proceeding.

[TheSCREWEDSoftware]

The best approach i think for this (since we dont have dedicated translators for the project) would be to find an automated way to at least translate the automatically even if they are not fully correct.

[Traduzione automatica] - Si riferisce al nome dell'articolo

(for Item_template.name as example).

Localisation support is important for games at least, for application i don't know how much of a barrier it is (when people cant read the github or page of the app).

• We either choose group of languages and we have people that can translate
  or
• We do automatic translation (for the existing languages) and only translate them manually if anyone wants to contribute to it

[FrancescoBorzi]

indeed, however I would also avoid to keep translation files that are not really needed in our code. For example, how many users who speak Swedish or Dutch do NOT speak fluently English and actually need the translation? My guess is 0, but maybe I am mistaken so please let us know.

[TheSCREWEDSoftware]

We could see from the most spoken languages in the world, which of them would speak less english.

Example portuguese (refering to brazil more than portugal in this sense)

[TheSCREWEDSoftware]

Not looking into sources just first results on google.

Eurasia

• China (Mandarin)
• Laos (lao)
• Cambodia (Khmer)
• Thailanad (Thai)
• Indonesia (Inodnesian)
• Vietnam (Vietmese)
• Russia (Russian)
• Turkey (Turkish)
• France (French)
• Spain (Spanish)
• Hungary (Hungarian)
• Saudia Arabia
• Qatar (Arabic)
• Kuwait (Arabic)
• Oman (Arabic)
• Jordan (Arabic)

I know vietnam has 1 language, china would be simplfieid mandarian, im unsure for others, for the arabic countries i know its their own dialec idk how much different it is.

America

• Brazil (Portuguese)
• Mexico (Spanish)
• Colombia (Spanish)
• Chile (Spanish)
• Panama (Spanish)

Africa

• Egypt (Arabic)
• Libya (Arabic)
• Rwanda (Kinyarwanda, and some french)
• Somalia (Somali and Arabic)
• Angola (Portuguese)
• Sudan (Arabic)

[TheSCREWEDSoftware]

Most spoken thats not English language: Arabic > Spanish > Portuguese and the rest is more balance, but i would say french, and russian are more popular)
English knowledge: France, Spain, Hungary, Panama
English knowledge: Libya, Angola, Sudan, Laos, China

From the list above