IQSS / IQSS/dataverse

UI language toggle to include country codes to support language locales

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Component: JSF Feature: Internationalization Type: Feature User Role: Guest UX & UI: New React UI
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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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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

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