Internationalization is failing for certain languages and certain pages

[jswope00]

There appears to be great coverage for the English and Spanish languages on https://palm.demo.overhang.io/

But spot-checking other languages like German and Italian I am seeing gaps where pages are not translated. For what seems like most languages outside of English and Spanish, these pages are not being translated:

1. Profile: https://prnt.sc/z4dGtXn-O0By
2. Account: https://prnt.sc/9s6A4RgMqbTR
3. Popups: https://prnt.sc/ICaT5O0Q8weT
4. Selective elements on Course homepage: https://prnt.sc/ICaT5O0Q8weT
5. Progress Page: https://prnt.sc/Sf9VH5YEDZY3
6. Dates: https://prnt.sc/MYIhC-JnYkHi

Happy to find more pages and languages if it is helpful, but this looks widespread and related to the MFEs to me.

[DeanJayMathew]

Let's bring this up with @ghassanmas, @sambapete, @edenhuthmacher and other leaders of the Translation Working Group for their potential insights into this issue.

[ghassanmas]

As a translator of Arabic I have checked all the above mentioend repos and found the translation exists in source files, for ref

• Learning/Progess page (and mainly all other points)
• Account
• Profile

[ghassanmas]

Now for other langauges we would need to check the problem:

1. If it's not translated then we would ask translator to review/translate the strings
   1. Then we would need to wait for Jenkis jobs to sync translation on master which run usually every Mondy
   2. Lastly someone would need to backport the commit from last step to open-release/maser.palm
2. If it's a technical issue we would need to see why the translation aren't being pulled:
   1. This has been a straight forward thing to resolve in the past, as I don't know who to reach out for, and it would also vary by the cause

@brian-smith-tcril in the following PR you have asked for context

• chore: update translation to olive frontend-app-authoring#454 This PR is exactly what I refer to in step 1.ii above

[sambapete]

I don't seem to have any issues selecting fr_CA in the account MFE and having pages translated to fr_CA. It could be very language specific. Maybe some of the languages were the problems are occurring are not a 100% translated?

[DeanJayMathew]

@ghassanmas @sambapete

Which languages should we cover in testing?

English
Spanish
Arabic
French Canadian
French France

Any others you think should be part of the test plan?

[jyliugithub]

Just checked Mandarin( Chinese) , a lot has not been synced ( especially Course, Progress, Date,Discussion) . Not sure if it is because of the cut off date ( Apr) or anything else.

[ghassanmas]

@jyliugithub Thank you for testing.
Checking the frontend-app-learning resource in Mandarin https://app.transifex.com/open-edx/edx-platform/language/zh_CN/, it's about 23% reviewed while 100% translated And you can only see from here it's only pulling hte reviewed strings https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-learning/blob/master/src/i18n/messages/zh_CN.json .

[jyliugithub]

@ghassanmas I see. Thanks for letting me know. I will try to finish the reviewing of the frontend learning strings then test again. Give me a couple of days, I will update again here.

[pdpinch]

Should the release notes include this as a "known issue"? If so please propose some text on the release notes PR at openedx/docs.openedx.org#321

[mariajgrimaldi]

Hi there! Do we have an update on this issue? I also noticed there is no clear solution -- eg. translate MFEs to german or fix chinese translations. Should we add one? So we know when this is done.

[jyliugithub]

@mariajgrimaldi https://palm.demo.overhang.io/dashboard can not be accessed at the moment. Although the Chinese translation for frontend-app-learning is done, I can not check if the translation has been synced or not.

[mariajgrimaldi]

@jyliugithub you can use this instance for tests: https://demo.openedx.overhang.io/ it's deployed using the latest Open edX release! Let us know how your testing goes.

[mariajgrimaldi]

Hi @jyliugithub: do we have an update on this? Let us know what you need to test this out.

[heldersepu]

FYI @jswope00 ...
For the German and Italian langs, a lot of translation is missing:

• https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-account/blob/open-release/palm.master/src/i18n/messages/de.json
• https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-account/blob/open-release/palm.master/src/i18n/messages/it.json

Strange that there are two files of those languages:

• https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-account/blob/open-release/palm.master/src/i18n/messages/de_DE.json
• https://github.com/openedx/frontend-app-account/blob/open-release/palm.master/src/i18n/messages/it_IT.json

[heldersepu]

Could it be that the selector has the wrong option?

[heldersepu]

It looks that the selector option is indeed the problem, I change the italian option to it-IT and save and it shows correctly

Same with German, changing the option to de-DE did the trick:

[heldersepu]

PR was merged, this issue can be closed...
a lot more talk on translations/Internationalization happening on the slack Open edX Transifex Working Group