Localize this extension to other languages and regions

[ceilican]

Add translations of the description of this extension here:
https://github.com/OiWorld/CarbonFootprintGoogleMaps/blob/master/Description.md

[rohankatyal29]

@ceilican: Are you expecting something like this:

A select menu to chose the language

[ceilican]

Not exactly. Ideally, the app should detect the user's language automatically. This should be feasible with use Google's localization features. In particular, I was thinking of this: https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/i18n

Another app of mine that has been partially localized is Mind The Word (see also https://github.com/OiWorld/MindTheWord/tree/master/Source/_locales and https://github.com/OiWorld/MindTheWord/blob/master/Description.md). However, even there I haven't been able to localize the texts that appear in the options page. I was only able to localize the texts that appear in the Chrome Web Store. Google's instructions don't say how to use localized messages inside the app itself, and I haven't had time to research how to do that yet. If you could find that out, that would be great.

[rohankatyal29]

I have figured out a solution for this. But I am not being able to test it. I changed my chrome's locale using chrome://setting/languages and the used var language = window.navigator.userLanguage || window.navigator.language; to check my current locale, but it still shows en-US. I am not being able to change the accept language. I even tried with a chrome extension which changes the locale of browser with no luck. Do you know of any reliable way to change and test the locale of the browser?

[ceilican]

No, unfortunately I don't know yet how to detect the user's language.

What you described seems to be a bug in Chrome. Maybe it would be worth it to send a bug report to Chrome's developers.

[rohankatyal29]

I will send a bug report to Chrome's developers and wait for their response

[share-with-me]

@rohankatyal29 I used navigator.userLanguage , navigator.browserLanguage , navigator.systemLanguage and managed to get the same output en-US . However, when I tried to change my browser default language to some other language, it still outputs en-US. Is it the same thing that you have tried? Also any updates from chrome bug issue?
Edit:
I tried to change the language settings from control panel and the userLanguage now outputs the language I changed to, but browserLanguage still outputs the same en-US .
@ceilican any way to go about these that you can suggest with?!

[rohankatyal29]

@share-with-me: I have tried doing that plus a couple of things more with no success. Don't have any updates about the bug yet

[PrateekGupta1509]

I have implemented this in my pull request #33 , added support for Hindi language. To add support for other languages would need their respective translations.

To add support for your language the procedure that needs to be followed is given below:

To Add another language:

- create a messages.json in _locales/[language_code]/ directory
- use the key set mentioned in any of the pre-existing messages.json file for en / hi
- description is optional and is not displayed

To get language-code for your language: https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/i18n

To test: (use hi as language-code for Hindi)

On Linux : LANGUAGE=<language-code> google-chrome

For windows and Mac OS X : visit [https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/i18n#testing-win](https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/i18n#testing-win)

[ceilican]

Thank you, @PrateekGupta1509 ! I will keep this issue open, in case other people would like to contribute other languages.

[AnandKumar22]

@ceilican I have added the Portugal Translation, please have a look at it.