[ENHANCEMENT] Define fallback languages for when translations are only partial

[yrjarv]

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Describe the improvement

I have no clue how difficult or easy this would be to implement, but I suggest that we could define certain languages in the source code that would take over when another language is not fully translated. One example of that would be that until I'm done translating Norwegian Nynorsk (it's gonna take a while...) the missing strings can be shown with the Norwegian Bokmål translation instead of the English original string.

Of course, this would only be viable for languages that are pretty much identical (I'm guessing that applies to a few of the Spanish versions?), but it would certainly be a small quality of life improvement for users who are not fluent in English or just want a language they know for every string.

Describe how this improvement could help users.

This would help users to read languages know and that are similar to the one they chose as the app language.

[yrjarv]

Would you mind giving me a little pointer on where the loading of the translations happens, so that I can maybe have a chance of fixing it myself? I can't really find much other than the translation files... @marticliment

[marticliment]

They are loaded on the wingetui\Core\tools.py file

[yrjarv]

I think I have a solution, but how do I run it to make sure it works? And do you want me to add e.g. Catalan and Spanish as fallbacks for each other?

[marticliment]

how do I run it to make sure it works?

You can temporarily set two notoriously different languages one as fallback of each other and see if the missing strings on the first language are set to the secondary one.

I maybe thought this would work better not by having WingetUI choose which languages to show when a string is missing, but rather using Windows Settings language preferences to choose the fallback languages:

[yrjarv]

I see. I was more wondering how to run my version of WingetUI, because I have no clue how do do that... I'll look into the possibility of choosing fallbacks from language preferences in Windows.

[marticliment]

Ah, you can find a guide here: https://marticliment.com/wingetui/help/build-overview/