Show Snaglist in your language

How-to

Snaglist's buttons and questions are in English by default, in British or US spelling. You can show them in any language by giving your own text for each one.

Steps

Set your site's main language with language. The default, "auto", reads the lang attribute of each page:

Snaglist.start({ language: "en-US" });

en-GB and other English: British spelling (colour, behaviour).
en-US: US spelling (color, behavior), with nothing else to do.
Any other language: continue with step 2. 2. Get every piece of text Snaglist shows. Open a page that runs Snaglist, open the browser's developer console, and run:

copy(JSON.stringify(Snaglist.strings(), null, 2))

This puts about 170 keys and their English text on your clipboard, such as "launcher": "Send feedback". 3. Translate each value, keeping each key exactly as it is. 4. Give the translations to Snaglist as text, with the language code:

Snaglist.start({
  language: "es",
  text: { "launcher": "Enviar comentarios", "chooseTitle": "Enviar comentarios", "types.bug.label": "Algo no funciona" },
});

Open the site and go through Send feedback to check every window.

Things to note

Any key you leave out stays in English, so you can translate a few at a time.
For Arabic, Hebrew, Persian and Urdu, Snaglist's windows are laid out right to left.
Reports themselves (the table and section headings) stay in English, so a team can read reports from any language site. What people enter stays in their own language.
An AI assistant can translate them for you: the set-up tool asks for your language and adds the step to its prompt. Ask a native speaker to check the result.

Find out more

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