the-paperless-project/paperless

RFE: Interface translation

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#287 opened on Jan 19, 2018

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Description

Hi there,

I've just played around with paperless for the first time, and it looks like a promising project. One thing I'd like to see in the future would be a translated/translatable interface, with community-driven translations.

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Research direction
Investigate adding internationalization (i18n) support using Django's built in i18n framework. Identify all user facing strings in templates and Python files, create translation files (.po), and set up language selection. Provide instructions for community translations.
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python
Domain
frontendinternationalization
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3
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Half day
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Clear
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