Pinafore-Web-Client-Frontend/docs/Internationalization.md

Internationalization

To contribute or change translations for Pinafore, look in the src/intl directory. Create a new file or edit an existing file based on its two-letter language code and optionally, a region. For instance, en-US.js is American English, and fr.js is French.

The default is en-US.js, and any strings not defined in a language file will fall back to the strings from that file.

There is also an intl/emoji-picker directory, which contains translations for emoji-picker-element (which already comes with English built-in).

Note that internationalization is currently experimental. Client-side locale switching is not supported – when you build the instance of Pinafore, it is either one language or another. To build in a particular language, use (for example):

LOCALE=fr yarn build

or

LOCALE=fr yarn dev

There is also an experimental LOCALE_DIRECTION environment variable for the direction (LTR versus RTL) which is exposed to the source code while building.