Is there an English translation of the language picker?

On the Developer Dashboard, when you Edit the info for an app there is a languages picker to add localized descriptions of the app. However, the picker shows each language written in the language's native form/alphabet which makes it hard to determine several languages for an English speaking (or other language) developer. Is there an English version of this language picker?

Thx,

Pete

0 flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago

If you don't know a language then you can do a few things:

1. translate your strings using google translate or something similar (I don't recommend). If this is the case then you probably shouldn't upload the translation at all.

2. only translate to languages you actually know.

3. with the strings to be translated you also include "English" and hope that the translator will translate it to the destination language's own name (instead of English in the destination language). In this case you should be able to recognize the tab in the dashboard

0 pstoppani over 2 years ago

The best I could find is to use the language picker on Wikipedia which shows the language in English when you hover over it.

0 flowstate over 2 years ago in reply to pstoppani

If you use Chrome, you can right-click on the page and select "Translate to English".

If you're worried about that messing up other parts of the page (like your app description), at that point you can use the web inspector in the debugger to grab the contents of the dropdown (right-click > Inspect; right-click > Copy > Copy element).

e.g. (Yeah it's not perfect)

<select class="form-control width-auto" id="lang-select">
<option selected="selected">Select a Language</option>
<option value="de">Deutsch</option>
<option value="fi"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Finland</font></font></option>
<option value="ru"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Russian</font></font></option>
<option value="hr"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;"><font style="vertical-align: inherit;">Croatian</font></font></option>
...

Then you can do the same for the untranslated version of the page and correlate the two lists.

<select class="form-control width-auto" id="lang-select">
<option selected="selected">Select a Language</option>
<option value="de">Deutsch</option>
<option value="fi">Suomi</option>
<option value="ru">Русский</option>
<option value="hr">Hrvatski</option>
...

You could also just skip the first step and use the two letter ISO language code (e.g. "de" = German") to figure out which language is which.