Internationalisation / translation of the UI into many languages

[spwoodcock]

Issue

• As we discussed on a call earlier, we could consider translating the UI into multiple languages.
• This would make ORC accessible to more users.
• Priority languages to start:
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Swahili
  • Portuguese
• To make a start, this is a pretty good task for an LLM, being language models after all. Once machine translation is done, they can be improved by configuring a Weblate project to crowdsource the improvements / new languages.

Implementation

• Django-i18n is already implemented, but with only en-us configured:

  LiveORC/LiveORC/settings.py

  Line 187 in ba88d83

  LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

• It's easy enough to follow the guide here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/i18n/
• Django uses a pretty standard .po file syntax and gettext, which is simple and easy to use.
• Weblate can pick up these .po files and load them into the Weblate UI for translation by a non-tech audience.

Notes

• Is this the best first target for translation, or would it be in the ORC-OS itself?
• This all assumes Django is here to stay as the platform for LiveORC, which I'm guessing it is.