To speakers of underrepresented languages: If your language isn't available in Mastodon's posting window and you'd like me to add it, please let me know.
I will need:
1. Locale code https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_639-1_codes 2-letter ISO 639-1 codes are preferred, and if not available, we can use a 639-3 code instead
2. English name
3. Native name
If your language is small, try not to be too granular re. dialect so that you will get more posts when filtering.
Boosts welcome.
@gunchleoc Great!
Unfortunately, there's no 2-letter code available, and I think we're maybe just a handful learners/speakers on Mastodon, but I'd be elated if it could be added:
1. 639-3 code: vai
2. Vai
3. ꕙꔤ [vai]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vai_language
ꕒꔤꕪ [ɓáíka] / Thanks!
@Mabande Is the Latin letter representation added to 3 on purpose, or will all speakers be able to recognize the language in the filter selection (https://mastodon.social/settings/preferences/other) if it's listed just in the native script as ꕙꔤ?
I have made screenshots for both variants to help you decide
@Mabande Excellent news, thanks for letting me know! 💃
I was busy, so I haven't checked GitHub in a few days.
@jerome The description just says "public feed", so I guess it's the federated and local, but not the home feed. You can individually filter the profiles that you follow though to remove some languages from your home timeline.
I have only looked at a very small section of the code so far, so I don't know how filtering works in detail.
@anarchiv PR is up: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/27434
It will probably take a while until this becomes live - I already have a backlog of PRs sitting there. I expect that the code review team is short-handed.
@anarchiv Plattdüütsch wurde jetzt gemergt und wird in Mastodon 4.3.0 als Postsprache verfügbar sein 🙂
1. jbo
2. Lojban
3. la .lojban.
@olap Scots is already available.
If you want the user interface too, you can contribute to the translation on Crowdin https://crowdin.com/project/mastodon/sco
Make sure to align with the other translators on terminology though, especially for important keywords like "boost", "federated", "post" etc.
@gunchleoc I came across this while looking for details after the new UI with language selection got rolled out and one of our language script variant is not listed (unlike say Chinese which had variants listed just fine in the selection)
requesting addition of Jawi Malay
locale code: ms_Arab
native name: بهاس ملايو
we usually call it "Jawi Malay" but if you want the English name be consistent with how existing variants are shown then "Malay (Arabic)" works as well
ref https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/43/summary/ms_Arab.html
@gunchleoc note that while CLDR listed the locale code as ms_Arab (with underscore), HTML usually use ms-Arab (with hyphen)
for example, go to the wikipedia article for Kuala Lumpur
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuala_Lumpur
look at the infobox on the right > Other transcription(s) > Jawi
right-click on the Jawi text and inspect-element it, you will see it is marked as ms-Arab instead of ms_Arab
@msiapublictransport The Pull Request has been merged and Jawi Malay will be available as a posting language in Mastodon 4.3.0 🙂
Russian and ukrainian would be needed by some.
@Elischeva91 Already there, they are even available as UI languages.
I only work on the web interface. Depending on which app you use, it might be different there.
Leigh
GunChleoc
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ
Jérôme
Souvlaki Space Station 🛸
Usona Homarano
Olap
Malaysia Public Transport
Elischeva