Add Internationalization

[wuan]

Why Internationalization?

• Prepare app for translations to be ready any time.
• Attract external contributions.

Requirements

• All in app strings are collected in a central place and ready to add additional languages.
• There is a solution allowing localized wordlists.
  • This needs to be updated upstream first, see Custom wordlist support magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole-protocols#31
• We also have localized MOTD strings.

Details

App localization

Part of this will be finding a good framework which allows us to have a simple localization support

Requirements

• Support for String keys
• Some kind of code generation for the keys.
• Support for language specific things:
  • name templates
  • date and time formats
  • plural and number formats
  • key references (linking/including other texts)
  • modifiers (e. g. lower)
  • fallback rules

PoCs

• Easy Localization (L10n proof of concept for Easy Localization #205 )

[wuan]

There is already an issue regarding use of localized wordlists: magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole#214

[meejah]

Don't miss the linked discussion on magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole#26 which reveals some technical and security issues with some proposed solutions.