Internationalis(z)ation efforts

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Introduction

As HydePHP is starting to spread and become used all over the world (which is absolutely incredible!) we need to ramp up our internationalization support. This discussion will serve as the roadmap for what we need to do, and what has been done.

As I sadly don't speak every language, the community is going to be very important here. I need help both with finding ways we can improve support, and in implementing needed features, and also testing the features that have been implemented.

Resources and mindset

A great resource is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j74jcxSunY by Tom Scott on Computerphile which brings up many great points. Given his conclusion, we will from the HydePHP internals side have a strong preference for English for the foreseeable future.

The goal here is simply to make sure that sites don't break when developers using HydePHP makes websites in other languages. So the HydePHP Framework needs to support when other developers use it in other languages.

Roadmap

Here is the roadmap of planned features. Please suggest more in the comments, and I'll add them here, and make sure they're in the right category.

Planned

• This feature is planned - you can help!
• Arabic words can't be truncated when making descriptions (on hold until someone speaking Arabic can help, as I'm unable to verify it works correctly)
• Customizable default date formats? (May need to be in v2 depending on the constant-based DateString implementation)

In progress

• This feature is being worked on (development/testing)

Completed

• This feature is implemented and released
• [1.x] Automatically transliterate logographic inputs for slug generation #2070
• Chinese support hyde#269