In non-English communities it is often desired to keep the admin interface in English (as the admins are often technical people who know English), but the public interface is set to the languages related to the community.
Keeping the admin interface in English reduces the translation workload. However, in the current situation where many phrases are shared between public and admin interface, it is not possible to translate only public facing strings. Being able to select a different locale for the admin interface from the public one would be very helpful.
That is already possible. There is a configuration option to “allow users to choose their own language interface preference”.
However, it does not solve the issue described in this feature request. If I am an admin of my board, my preference will be global for me which I don’t want. I want to be able to access admin interface in English while the public facing area and inline moderation tools all in a different language of my choice. For now, it would require me to change the language each time I switch back and forth between the two interfaces. Unless I chose to use two separate browsers with no shared sessions.
For some languages it is also considerably more complex to translate some of the admin interface language, and weak translations obfuscate things for admins, make interface hardto understand (much harder than English version).
Yes, because not all technical terms have well known alternatives in many languages. The issue is even worse for RTL languages where leaving technical terms (or CSS property names for example) as it is in the middle of a translated phrase makes it very difficult to read.
The areas in red are showing the site locale, while the rest is displayed in the personal locale. Note that in some cases the same title has two different locales.
This is not the end of the world because it is likely that the admins will know the default site language and of course the personal language that they have selected. It’s just strange.
