internationalization (i18n) / multiple language support

[meichthys]

Discussed in https://github.com/orgs/TriliumNext/discussions/240

^{Originally posted by eliandoran July 18, 2024}
One of the core aspects of Trilium that is missing is the fact that it is an English-only software.

There are solutions such as @Nriver 's repo which work by replacing the hard-coded messages within the application via regular expressions.

Speaking of which, @Nriver , would you be willing to help us with setting up Chinese for the application?

On my side I would prefer a different method which involves adding multilanguage support directly in the application instead of doing it at build time, however your existing expertise plus translations would go a long way.

What do you think?

[JYC333]

Language switcher is merged actually. #330
And there is already one PR merged regarding Chinese translation, not sure whether all messages are translated. #264

[Nriver]

About 60% has been translated.

[hasecilu]

On #349 I made an initial step to have Spanish translation, I'll be happy to test next beta release and find potential fixes on strings.

[hasecilu]

To help on the translation for new languages I made a small script to use trans command from translate-shell package.
Now most of the work is to review translations are good and fix bad translations.

Edit: the previous version perfomed substitutions, even in the tags which caused some problems 😰 . This new version instead of making string substitution it recreates the line using the translation.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

INPUT_FILE=en.json
OUTPUT_FILE=es.json

while IFS= read -r line; do
	# Extract the string between ': "' and '"'
	extracted_string=$(echo "$line" | awk -F'": "' '{split($2, a, "\""); print a[1]}')
	# Extract the tag (string before ':')
	tag="${line%%:*}"

	if [ -z "$extracted_string" ]; then
		output_line="$line"
	else
		translated_string=$(trans :es --brief "$extracted_string")
		# NOTE: you need to remove extra commas on some lines
		output_line="${tag}: \"${translated_string}\","
	fi
	echo "$output_line" >>"$OUTPUT_FILE"
done <"$INPUT_FILE"

[hasecilu]

tracking: #342 #426 #448 #449