Support internationalization

[per1234]

Describe the problem

Arduino has a global community who speak many languages. Arduino IDE 2.0.0 currently only provides English language support.

Expected behavior

In order to make Arduino as accessible as possible, it would be beneficial to provide internationalization (i18n) support.

The classic Arduino IDE and Arduino CLI are currently using the Transifex translation platform, and this has enabled amazing community volunteers to provide high quality translations to 83 languages! This system seems to be working well, so it should be considered for Arduino IDE 2.0.0 as well.

If possible, existing translations for strings shared between the classic Arduino IDE and Arduino IDE 2.0.0 should be reused.

Operating system

All

Operating system version

Any

Additional context

Arduino CLI already has internationalization support (arduino/arduino-cli#676) and the strings originating from Arduino CLI should be translated there so that they can benefit every tool using Arduino CLI.

Related

• It is suggested to add Chinese and Chinese arduino-pro-ide#303
• Provide Chinese support #627
• Add missing localization for locales with available language pack #712
• What release Chinese version #741
• How can I try recent translation? #762
• Can't select language packet in Preferences #771

Keywords

• localization
• localized
• l10n
• internationalization
• internationalized
• i18n
• translate
• translation

Issue checklist

• I searched for previous reports in the issue tracker
• I verified the problem still occurs when using the latest nightly build
• My report contains all necessary details

[rsora]

Relabelled as this is something that is needed to reach feature parity status with IDE 1.x

[rsora]

Closing, as we implemented the internationalization support through the following PRs:
#542
#545
#616
#610

[per1234]

Not completed until we are able to actually deliver localization to the users, which has not happened yet.

[kotobuki]

Hi. I am a little bit confused. I am a translater of Japanese (ja) and translated all resources on Transifex. What all we translators have to do is translate strings on Transifex? Do we need anything else to be included in the nightly build and the release version?

[per1234]

I am a translater of Japanese (ja) and translated all resources on Transifex.

Thanks so much @kotobuki!

What all we translators have to do is translate strings on Transifex?

That is correct.

Do we need anything else to be included in the nightly build and the release version?

No additional action is required from you beyond the translation work on Transifex.

Arduino has been working to set up the internationalization system that:

• Pushes the English language source strings that need to be localized from this repository to Transifex
• Pulls the localization data from Transifex back to this repository
• Integrates the localization data into the IDE builds
• Provides a user interface for language selection

It is that internationalization infrastructure which has not yet been completed (though it is very close). That work will be done by Arduino's developers (though contributions from the community are welcome as always). I believe the final task is tracked here:
#712

[fstasi]

As @per1234 suggested, this is superseeded by #712 and more specific issues. Closing.