Dimillian / Dimillian/IceCubesApp

Feature request: Set the language of replies based on the replied-to message

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enhancement
Dominant language
Swift
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Description

The Mastodon web UI sets the language of a reply to the language of the replied-to message. This is good.

Ice Cubes sets even the language of replies to the last-used language. This is annoying for bilingual/multilingual Mastodon users with mixed timelines.

It’s somewhat remedied by its language detection feature, but still annoying.

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Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by tracing the reply composer and its language-selection behavior, then verify that replying to messages in different languages uses the replied-to message’s language rather than the last-used language.

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Assessment

Tech stack
swift
Domain
mobile
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
52/100

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