Internationalization in Cockpit

Feature Request
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Hello!

I am building a site using Cockpit that requires two different languages. But there are few things that I don’t like.

  1. Default language is without identifier. Why wouldn’t we set everything by default on the first language (that is in the list/marked as default in config), and postfix every field with this default language, and get rid of the Default language.
  2. If I translate only in my desired languages, but not default, admin table views might be empty.
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and get rid of the Default language

It confuses me all the time, too.

If I translate only in my desired languages, but not default, admin table views might be empty.

That would be useful.

I would love a real multilingual backend, too, but there are a lot of places, that need some tweaks.

Some places I remember:

  • labels, description, info for fields and collections
    • I use English field names to keep my code clean and I set German field labels to display them. I do the same with collection names and labels etc.
  • some Javascript libraries
  • date formats need i18n - currently based on moment.js
  • I set i18n: de in config.yaml to be able to query against {"lang":"de"} and to get the default language as result
  • groups could have translatable labels (the current group is displayed on the dashboard in the latest next branch)
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Hmmm, damn, seems like this is the point that is not very satisfying for green flag to use this CMS on my current project :frowning:

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You could modify it a bit to your needs and create custom views…
date formats use moment.js and can be adjsuted with https://momentjs.com/docs/#/i18n/
The labels are harder, but possible, too.

A start could be to display the user language in the entries table view by default. Add options.lang = App.$data.user.i18n; to: