Language Localization

[thegladscientist]

Does anyone know about language localization? I would like a hubs page to appear in Japanese by default, and even if it says default browser language in the settings, and a browser is set to Japanese it switches it to English, with only Chinese and i think French as choices in the menu. Does anyone have experience in doing something like this?

[johnshaughnessy]

Additional locales can be added by following the instructions here : https://github.com/mozilla/hubs/tree/master/src/assets/locales#localization
There is not Japanese language support in Hubs yet, but may be added soon. If someone submits a ja.json translation file before we get to it, we would happily merge it in.

[thegladscientist]

Thanks so much! I am working on a ja.json now, and will send it over soon!

[thegladscientist]

@johnshaughnessy I have a translation file for Japanese ready! 👍

I couldn't attach a json here on GitHub so am putting a link to download on Dropbox (hope thats alright!) https://www.dropbox.com/s/p9lxgunyj9pi8kv/jp.json?dl=0

[johnshaughnessy]

Thanks @thegladscientist - I've opened a pull request using the translations file you uploaded to dropbox. #3102

[tttigo]

Hello, I want to translate hubs to brazilian portuguese, how exactly should I do this? And where can I submit it? I'm newbie on this.

Cheers

[thegladscientist]

It looks relatively easy (albeit time consuming) to do using the link that @johnshaughnessy provided. You can basically take the en.json file from that page, and translate the text for each field for Portuguese. I copied and pasted into Google translate, and then am correcting where necessary for the fields that didn't translate well. Hopefully that helps you get started!

[tttigo]

Thanks!

Got it! Just submited a pull request with it!

[thegladscientist]

Hey @tttigo what is the best way to submit a pull request with it? I haven't worked much with big public repos like this so apologies for the question.

[johnshaughnessy]

Hi @thegladscientist - I went ahead and opened a pull request with your translation file : (Add Japanese language option)

Our existing guidelines for contributing code do not explain how to use git and github in any detail, so I've added an issue to our backlog suggesting that we add some links to documentation for git and github.

In general, we would like to allow people to submit translations without needing them to know git / github, but have not yet set anything up for that yet. Thanks again for sharing the translations!

[thegladscientist]

Okay, cool, thank you very much! Happy to help the Hubs community in this little way!