Localization support

[Aaron-212]

Will Fontra consider supporting languages other than English? Also, I just started testing localization support myself. https://github.com/Aaron-212/fontra/tree/localization-support

[justvanrossum]

We will consider for sure! I'd like to study your proposal more thoroughly, thanks for sharing.

I have zero experience with localizing web apps, and I'm curious what the best practices are.

@fabiocaccamo, can you have a look at the changes in the above fork, and can you say something about best practices surrounding localizations?

For translatations, we would have nearby experts for:

• Chinese
• Japanese
• Korean
• French
• German
• Dutch

[fabiocaccamo]

@justvanrossum the localization approach started by @Aaron-212, even if very basic, is the right one, however there are some important requirements:

• [ ] adding support to plural forms (this is not trivial, it would be better to use some existing libraries)
• [ ] it should also be possible to simply localize strings used directly into html elements or attributes
• [ ] reading localization data from different .json files instead of hardcoding it inside .js
• [ ] we need a switch-language menu, and changes should be applied without refreshing the page.