UI language toggle to include country codes to support language locales

[amberleahey]

Related to #4685

Update from the community call today (09-11-2018), many people require having Dataverse in a specific language locale e.g. EN-CA, FR-FR, etc., and to be able to differentiate this in the UI toggle would be good. Please can we revisit the design of the UI toggle to incorporate these country/locales codes?

Someone mentioned using ISO country and language codes or some combination of plain language and code might be best. see: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13214_01/wli/docs92/xref/xqisocodes.html as example of codes to combine...

[oscardssmith]

Probably should have considered this in original implementation. It would not be much harder to do (and still wouldn't). If you have some experience with Java this would actually be a pretty easy first pr. The changes would all be in one file.

[amberleahey]

great, perhaps @JayanthyChengan can take a look!

[4tikhonov]

I've just tested pre-release of 4.9.3 and it works fine. Just a question about translation of metadata fields still remain, how it will be handled in this release?

I see the extension of citation and metadata blocks with translated properties here:
https://github.com/scholarsportal/dataverse-property-files/blob/master/french/citation_fr.properties

Should this file should be merged with Bundle_fr.properties file (for French, in this specific example) or it will be separate support of files with properties for every discipline?

[4tikhonov]

Update: I've managed to get all metadata fields translated (just modified 4 lines of source code) from merged Bundle_fr.properties file:

I don't know if you guys will be interested in the solution as probably new release is already coming with the same functionality.

[pdurbin]

@4tikhonov that's awesome but #4684 is the issue about metadata fields so could you please post the screenshot over there? My understanding of this issue (#5046) is that it's about French in France vs French in Canada.

[cmbz]

2024/09/16: ABR review, @amberleahey please let us know if this is still a desired feature. If so, could you provide a bit more detail about the request? Thanks.