[Feedback]: Add multi-language (i18n) support to the desktop app

まずデスクトップアプリの設定とユーザー向けUIの入口を洗い出し、次に言語選択とシステム言語の検出が現在どのように処理されているかを確認します。拡張可能なローカリゼーション層、簡体字中国語の初期サポート、Settingsの言語セレクター、ローカライズされた日付と数値、翻訳への貢献方法のドキュメントが整えば完了です。

What problem are you trying to solve?

The desktop app currently ships with an English-only UI. Users who are not fluent in English (Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, etc.) struggle to discover and understand features, which hurts onboarding and daily usage.

There are already several separate requests asking for individual locales - #43 (Turkish), #47, #53 and #74 (Simplified Chinese) - which clearly shows real demand. But each request only covers one language, and the underlying gap is that the app has no i18n/localization framework at all, so users cannot switch the interface language.

What would improve it?

Add a proper internationalization (i18n) layer to the desktop app:

• Externalize all user-facing strings into locale resource files (e.g. JSON) instead of hardcoding English in components.
• • Detect the OS/system language on first launch and add a Language selector in Settings to override it, applied without restart if possible.
• • • Ship an initial set of locales, at minimum Simplified Chinese (zh-CN), plus a documented way for the community to contribute new translations.
• • • • Localize dates, numbers and relative times, not just labels.
• • • • • Keep it extensible so more languages (Turkish, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, ...) can be added later.
          This single change would resolve the multiple one-off localization requests and give all non-English users a first-class experience.

What do you do today?

Today the UI is English-only and there is no language option in Settings. Users either work in English or look for unofficial patches. Related issues: #43, #47, #53, #74.

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