Not sure how to juggle languages while setting up my francophone community

[stephtara (Stephanie Booth)]

@Moin

I prefer searching for settings with “English” as my interface language because then I can search the names of the settings, which are always in English, and the descriptions at the same time. Sometimes the keyword I am looking for is only in one of them, and then a German description makes things more complicated.

yeah that’s exactly why I left everything in English to set things up… simpler! But if it creates extra work because afterwards I need to go and edit topic titles and I don’t know what else that I haven’t discovered yet, maybe it’s better to try and do it in French…

@Moin

Apart from searching settings, I try to use the interface in German. That helps with improving the translations and noticing bugs that occur only when your interface language is not English.

Is there an easy way to flag localization omissions or errors? how does that work? I’m more than happy to throw in a few words here and there as long as I can do it without disrupting the current flow of the task I’m trying to accomplish (otherwise, I know me: it becomes a rabbit-hole and I never actually finish what I started trying to do).

@Moin

So, in general, I use the default locale of my forum (German) also as my interface locale, but I change it to find settings. I have a theme component that adds a toggle button to my sidebar so I can change my interface language with one click.

Thanks, that’s super helpful.