Add option to change language of plugin

[lorenzschmid]

Using my browser in English, the default of the plugin is French. It would be great if there is a language option to change the plugin's language to German (or French).

[scito]

I can confirm this. My browser is also in English and I see the addon in French.

Maybe instead of a switch. The addon could use the content language, i.e. for a French text, the addon is in French and for a German text, the addon displays in German.

[palrogg]

Hello,
thank you for the feedback and sorry for the late reply!

@lorenzschmid : I think the cleanest approach would be to set your 2nd preferred language in Firefox / Chrome, works fine for me. But I’d like to add a switch which stores a language preference in the future

@scito : good idea, but actually document.documentElement.lang is sometimes empty, for example on blick.ch, so I’d rather go for the switch

[lorenzschmid]

Thanks for your reply and true, I haven't thought of setting a second language in my browser.

Concerning the implementation, why not do both, i.e. use document.documentElement.lang and if it is not present use a fallback language given by a switch (or the other way around with a switch option "automatic)?

[palrogg]

Update:

• the i18n API doesn't support a language change FF Chrome, so it would mean rewriting part of it. Maybe in 2020
• language switch done (choice saved to local storage) but obviously not in use yet