Hey! Can we translate these? [immagine] If not, we should be imo..

Nope, those are keys to settings and aren’t translatable. Like urls aren’t translatable also. Bear in mind, the text that explain each of those settings is fully translated.

[immagine] bek: Technically is it possible Of course. Just as it would be technically possible to write HTML, CSS and JavaScript in Hindi and map it to English. I don’t see this as being that big of a problem as long as the values are translatable. And this is in the Admin pages after all. I…

[immagine] Mittineague: I don’t see this as being that big of a problem as long as the values are translatable. And this is in the Admin pages after all. The point is all people should be able to read all of them in their own language. It doesn’t make sense if setting’s description is transla…

And have you ever seen HTML tags, CSS or JavaScript etc that wasn’t written in English? I haven’t. TBH I am somewhat surprised that a programming language hasn’t been written in a language other than English yet (AFAIK). The “de facto” doesn’t mean it’s an absolute “must”

You’re comparing programming languages with forum software. Programming languages is different. Because their compiler/interpreter can only understand hardcoded lexical afaik. But in forum software, you can easily translate most of things as we can see in Discourse. So you cannot compare discourse …

We have no plans in the foreseeable future to localise site setting key names, if we did so it would backfire and increase our support burden because we would have no easy way of communicating which site setting needs changing when supporting the site

Site setting keys are not translateable?

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bek 13 Ottobre 2016, 8:24pm 3

Why there are not translate able? I mean, from a technical standpoint.

Technically is it possible to make them translate able?

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Site setting keys are not translateable?

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