[Feature] Translation

[rich-howell]

Discussed in https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/discussions/199

^{Originally posted by manuelcanepa August 22, 2022}
Is planned to have text translations?

[MatissJanis]

Some work to make this happen:

• Feature: Translate loot-design #249
• Add internationalisation framework #205

[MatissJanis]

Some notes here:

First, personally me (maintainer) am not sold on the idea that Actual needs localization support. Main reason being that it increases the burden on us (maintainers) to keep the languages up-to-date, invalidate old translations, etc. However if the community really wants to have this: I'm not 100% against it.

Second, if we do decide to go ahead with localizations: I do not want to see general.title.message (dot notation) type strings in the codebase. Those just make things terribly difficult to understand. Prefer actual english text over a cryptic key (i.e. "Hello World!" over "home.title").

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[gravelfreeman]

Just wanted to say that many users won't take the time to come to the Github but will install actual-server, notice it's only English and will immediately uninstall it. I would have liked to use it but it lacks accessibility. The #1 rule in accessibility is language. I'm available to do the French translation and maintain it, just contact me on Github.

[Kiskadee-dev]

Translation are a must have, it seems to be a cool project but sadly i can't implement it to common users here due to the lack of accessibility.

[MatissJanis]

#3329