one of the things that surprised me as i am upgrading swiftinit.org is how many people seem to be requesting the site in languages other than english, despite the site being entirely english-only.
nearly 20 percent of “humanoid traffic” ¹ is sending HTTP headers that indicate they would rather browse the site in a language that is not english:
(even more interesting, this only counts the primary preferred language; it doesn’t count browsers that are sending things like en-US, pt-BR;q=0.9
, for example.)
with that in mind, i would like to kickstart discussions about localizations for the UI controls for swift documentation. some questions to start:
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is translating UI controls valuable on its own, even if the documentation content remains in english? should the UI language always be aligned with the content language?
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should UI language influence things like sorting order of symbols?
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is anyone encountering actual difficulties accessing swift documentation because the rendered UI is only available in english?
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if so, what languages should become the highest priority?
[1] traffic that does not display obvious signs of being a robot.