UI language toggle to include country codes to support language locales
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Description
Related to https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/issues/4685
Update from the community call today (09-11-2018), many people require having Dataverse in a specific language locale e.g. EN-CA, FR-FR, etc., and to be able to differentiate this in the UI toggle would be good. Please can we revisit the design of the UI toggle to incorporate these country/locales codes?
Someone mentioned using ISO country and language codes or some combination of plain language and code might be best. see: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E13214_01/wli/docs92/xref/xqisocodes.html as example of codes to combine...
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Research direction
Start by reading related issue #4685 and locating the existing UI language toggle. Review the current locale and language-selection behavior before deciding how country or language codes should appear. Done means the toggle clearly differentiates locales such as EN-CA and FR-FR and the proposed behavior is covered by the project’s existing checks.
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Assessment
- Domain
- frontend, internationalization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100