Translation for static text

[tomfran]

Motivation

As of now, all the static text in the theme is in English. Having different translations would be better for non-english websites.

The static text include:

• Footer
• Home string in breadcrumbs
• Dates
• Reading time
• Back to top

Wanted result

I don't like the idea of a translation menu for Typo, but I want people to be able to specify a language in their config to use.

The expected result would be something like:

hugo.toml

[params]
language = 'en | it | de | ...'

With the website using the appropriate strings for this set language.

Ref: https://gohugo.io/content-management/multilingual/

[kyagi]

If you need a Japanese translation, it will be

• フッタ or フッター
• パンくずリスト or パス
  • If you refer to the path(a series of directory/file name from the content root), IMHO, they might not need to be translated. I think most users adopt English in their directory/file name.
• 日付 or 日時
• 読み終えるまで or リーディングタイム
• トップに戻る

Have a nice day! :-)

[zeeshanthedev590]

so basically there should be a way to translate the text , given that the developer writes it in english?

[jpvg10]

I created a little PR (#50) to add translation for dates.

Not sure what's the best way to go for the others, but maybe translation tables? Or maybe even data sources.

[runofthemillgeek]

@jpvg10 translation tables looks like the right approach given what @tomfran also mentioned for other hardcoded static text in the template.

I'm interested in having good localization support for this theme too as I intend to have a separate section for Japanese posts next year to help with my learning. Would be nice to see Typo all ready for it before that :)

Hugo also has support for multilingual mode but IDK if that needs additional work.

For now this issue can be scoped for supporting translations when choosing the default site language.