Make start page multilingual

We are getting more and more feedback why the fairmeeting start page is not in English. As described in issue #4 (closed) it's not trivial.

Redirection management, web page hosting, multi-language handling or update management etc is not trivial.

Can the effort be estimated? Would it be easier to build our own site? @christian.fischer

added nice to have label

@nikola offered to help.

How much people would we need? What kind of skills should they have? How much time would it take? How much money would it cost? I would invest time and energy to assist to find money, and people.

The fairmeeting.net should be appearing in the language of the browser setting (please check).

There is already some text in more than a dozen of languages - but not exactly saying the same what the German text says.

Somebody has to translate the i18n variables

"title" (title on top)

"appDescription" (long text block in the middle)

in those languages:

main-af.json   main-eo.json	 main-frCA.json  main-it.json	main-ko.json  main-ptBR.json  main-tr.json
main-az.json  main-deDISTRO.json	 main-es.json	 main-fr.json	 main-ja.json	main-nb.json  main-ru.json    main-vi.json
main-bg.json  main-deFAIRMEETING.json	 main-esUS.json  main-hr.json	 main.json	main-nl.json  main-sk.json    main-zhCN.json
main-ca.json  main-de.json		 main-fa.json	 main-hu.json	 main-kab.json	main-oc.json  main-sl.json    main-zhTW.json
main-cs.json  main-enGB.json		 main-fi.json	 main-hy.json	 main-km.json	main-pl.json  main-sv.json

@nikola do you want to translate the fairmeeting starting page to english? @christian.fischer gives you the content and he will implement it to json file If yoiu don't have time, just let me know ;)

Hi Sebastian, yes please. Send me the content and I will translate it. :)

assigned to @christian.fischer

main-lang.zip @nikola you can find the welcomepage text under welcomepage - app description - use a html-software, f.e. sublimetext3, to open the files and save it

Thanks.

@sebastian.kuehs I spoke with Christian. English version/translation in json looks good now. I will report again if people continue to complain.

Great, thanks a lot for your engagement @nikola!

I'm closing this issue for now. If we want to add more languages, we can open it again.

closed

Duplicate issue of #36 (closed)

@nikola could you please check if the start page now appears in the language which you have set on your laptop / browser? We do have set DE as default language, if we d not get this information from the browser.

It seems the translated language files have never been put in place.

What needs to be translated in main.json and main-enGB.json from the file main-de.json:

"welcomepage": {
   "appDescription":
   "title":
}

@christian.fischer please check if this has been translated and paste it to /usr/share/jitsi-meet/lang

reopened

We had a user from Italy who reported that he sees the page in German instead of English. MAybe we have somewhere a slash too much, seen this in the log "https://atb.virtual.fairmeeting.net//en/"

The boxes welcomePageAdditionalCard.html and welcomePageAdditionalContent.html of the start page could be translated with a language declaration see https://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-html-language-declarations

Translation strings can be embedded if added to the translation library and then selected with

        <span data-i18n="dialog.OK">OK</span>

see https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/tree/master/lang#development

For fairmeeting and pro we are using again standard lang directory: https://git.fairkom.net/hosting/fairmeeting/-/issues/132#note_36702

All key/value pairs in main.json (for EN) are compiled into app.bundle.min.js and thus do not have any effect when changing main.json manually!

See https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/8444#issuecomment-767493502

• replace in app.bundle.min.js "Jitsi Meet" with "Start your conference now"