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Basic support for languages #165

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chucker opened this issue Sep 26, 2023 · 0 comments

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chucker commented Sep 26, 2023

Best as I can tell, the current status is:

API: Support fetching a status's language
API: Support writing it when posting a status
API: Support for translation

Then there's the question of the GUI.

What Toot! does for writing statuses is multifold:

it can set the language to whatever the keyboard layout is
it can (my preference) detect the language based on what you've typed
you can explicitly set the language

And then for reading them, I guess it detects if the language doesn't match your system language, and then offers to translate.

So, in terms of GUI, we want some of these:

(Definitely) support for setting and/or detecting the language when writing a post (I'm not sure detection is trivial enough to be worth it)
(Maybe) support for displaying the language for existing posts. I haven't seen this in most clients, I don't think.
(Maybe) offering translation.

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