That is a super-interesting feature request! Thank you for the idea!
Don't worry for the implementation, I already have a similar mechanism to save the custom sort types you can apply to individual communities.
On it, see this pull request 😉️ This will allow to set a "preferred language" for each community.
If you are mostly commenting on an instance and want something more general, I advise setting a global value in the "Default language in editor" item in the Advanced settings screen.
Wow that went fast, thank you!
Interesting that the localisation of the languages are visible in the files. Some time ago I translated text for a game (Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead) and they had their text mostly in (IIRC binary) .po files. I'm not sure why they did that though.
The PO format is the de-facto standard for software localization in open-source projects, it is a textual format (.po files are converted to binary .mo during the build process and linked against the executable) and it was originally designed for the GNU gettext internationalization library for the C language, but it has been ported to Python and other languages too over time as it grew popular. More info here.
Mobile apps have always been widely incompatible with it, Android apps use XML resources, iOS apps use Localizable.strings (aka stringtables, similar to .properties files), Flutter apps use the .ARB format which is JSON-based.
Thanks for the write-up.
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