[RFC] Extension to fall back to en lang

[RMcGirr83]

ISTs do have extensions and customisations posted on them and not all will have an English language pack, as might those on international 3rd party sites or developed by individuals/organisations for other usage.

True but they do have a default lang setup on the forum. Is it possible to add a default lang entry in composer? Will Symphony understand that?

[Nicofuma]

We should default to board lang and then english. Maybe we could add a default lang for the extension itself but it will be done in the ext.php file, not in the composer file. We shouldn't add too many things to this file which is unrelated to phpBB, I think that it shouldn't contain any data used only when the extension is enabled.

[leschek]

As non developer, but admin, I would like to be able to write "language queue". For example admin from Austria would be able to write de-at, de, de-x-sie, en and phpBB would look first for Austrian translation and then German (Casual Honorifics), German (Formal Honorifics) and English if it doesn't find it. The same happen with other languages. For example I as Czech would like to see first Czech (board default) translation, then Slovak, because it is similar language and last would be English translation.

[MattF]

Everything language related falls back from the user's lang, to the board's default, then to "en". So these email templates and style files in extensions simply need to be included in this process, for consistent behavior.

[brunoais]

^ agreed.

[tct]

+1

[MichaelC]

ISTs do have extensions and customisations posted on them and not all will have an English language pack, as might those on international 3rd party sites or developed by individuals/organisations for other usage.

True but they do have a default lang setup on the forum. Is it possible to add a default lang entry in composer? Will Symphony understand that?

Yes, you can put it in extra although Tristan is correct and using ext.php for this might be more appropriate (Perhaps setting a class constant or a method to return a string for the language).

We should default to board lang and then english. Maybe we could add a default lang for the extension itself but it will be done in the ext.php file, not in the composer file. We shouldn't add too many things to this file which is unrelated to phpBB, I think that it shouldn't contain any data used only when the extension is enabled.

[RMcGirr83]

Lapsed on this one. Ticket need to be created I take it?

[Nicofuma]

Yes please

[RMcGirr83]

https://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-13709