Language switcher #4366
Language switcher #4366
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I would use the original language names. The chance that someone figures out that this is the language selector and finds a language they understand is a lot higher if they can at least read the names of the languages they understand :) (Just think of the UI being in a language and script you do not know, and you cannot even recognize one single language name since they are all in an unknown script. For example look at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1860#sitelinks-wikipedia and see in how many of the languages you can recognize that the article is about the English language :) )
Using flag emojis is a huge antipattern. There are countries with multiple languages (Canada, Switzerland, ...), and as you mentioned there are languages that are used in multiple countries (English, French, Spanish, German, ...). You can find some concrete examples here: https://www.flagsarenotlanguages.com/blog/why-flags-do-not-represent-language/
That would work, but it looks a bit ugly ;-) What you can always do is add the ISO 639-1 code in brackets next to the language name (like |
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Updated to use original language names and made sure the language param gets applied and removed consistently. |
Issue: AAH-2730
language - always docs - not on login screen user - logged in, not anonymous login - not logged in, or anonymous
Issue: AAH-2730; discord
This adds a language switcher to standalone navbar:
closed
opened, using browser default language
manualy switched
manually switched back
(reset to browser defaults leads back to second screenshot :))
(the
(current),(browser default)andReset to browser defaultsstrings would be translated once we have the right strings in the catalog)This uses the language-switching mechanism introduced in #3225, updating it to not pass ?lang to API calls.