i18n: Add Swedish translation and improve internationalization support
- Dominant language
- Go
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- 310
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Description
## Summary
authd has user-facing strings that are currently hardcoded in English, including authentication mode labels and error messages. The existing `po/` directory in `authd-oidc-brokers` has an empty `fr.po`, suggesting i18n is planned but not yet implemented.
## Current state
- `authd-oidc-brokers/internal/broker/authmodes/consts.go` has display labels:
- "Local Password Authentication"
- "Device Authentication"
- "Define your local password"
- Error messages in `broker.go` ("Error connecting to provider", etc.)
- `authd-oidc-brokers/po/fr.po` exists but is 0 bytes
- No `.pot` template file
## Proposal
I'd like to contribute a Swedish (`sv`) translation once the i18n infrastructure is in place. Questions:
1. Is there a plan for extracting translatable strings (e.g. using `go-i18n` or `gotext`)?
2. Should translations go through Launchpad, or directly as `.po` files in the repo?
3. Are the PAM/GDM-facing strings also planned for translation?
Happy to help set up the gettext extraction if useful.
Daniel Nylander — Swedish translator for GNOME, Ubuntu, Debian, and 70+ open source projects.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading authd-oidc-brokers/internal/broker/authmodes/consts.go, broker.go, and the empty authd-oidc-brokers/po/fr.po. Determine with maintainers whether gettext extraction, go-i18n, or gotext is intended, and whether translations belong in the repository or Launchpad. Done requires an agreed i18n approach and a defined path for adding the Swedish translation, including the PAM/GDM-facing strings.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- go
- Domain
- internationalization, localization
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100