Sort and Translate the language in language picker.

[Drishti]

Hello Community,

I need help in two things.

1) How can we sort the language in language picker so that it get displays alphabetically?

2) I want to translate language . What I mean is , if I select Chinese then all languages in the language picker should also get translated to Chinese.

I am new to Language translation so please help me so that I can continue my learning journey.

Thanks in advance !

[Drishti]

Ok, and how can we  deal with point 2

2) I want to translate language . What I mean is , if I select Chinese then all languages in the language picker should also get translated to Chinese..
How can we achieve this ?

[Alex Coope - SN]

Hi @Drishti,

We deliberately don't do that, so that should someone want to change their language they would be able to read the option in their language. For example, I don't read any Chinese variant, therefore I wouldn't be able to see which option is English. So you need to consider the UX perspective.

If you absolutely must change them, then they are in the choice list contained in [sys_user].preferred_language,

Many thanks,
kind regards 

[Community Alums]

Hi @Alex Coope - SN 
Title : Alphabetical Sorting Issues in Language Translation
Question:
I have a widget where it displays catalog items Alphabetically according A-Z buttons when a user clicks on a specific letter, such as 'W' , it displays catalog items that starts with 'W' sorted in alphabetical order 
Ex: Web Configurator access, Web site allow/block popup's 
However, when language translation is applied, the sorting order changes unexpectedly. For example, instead of maintaining the alphabetical sequence, the results appear as 
in portugues brazilian 
Ex: Accès au configurateur web(Web configurator access), Estação de trabalho - tela de bloqueio(Workstation - lock screen) 
This raises the following questions: 
1. Is alphabetical sorting allowed or recommended when dealing with language translations?
2. Are there any best practices or standard approaches to maintain consistent alphabetical sorting across different languages?
Thanks in Advance!
Regards,
Mohammed Sazid

[Alex Coope - SN]

Hi @Community Alums, 

This is a really great question. The system should be handling it automatically behind the scenes, however with extended characters (think european languages with vowels having accents for example) we will be introducing a new more advanced sorting feature in an upcoming release for some situations like these - it's incredibly complex. 

Generally speaking though, you should not need to add any logic for sorting. What I would ask though, is if you could validate the behaviour in English vs Brazilian Portuguese (as per your example), then compare the English string with the Brazilian Portuguese string (e.g. do both start with A). If for what-ever reason it's sorting on the original English value rather than the Brazilian string values, could you confirm the field type that the sorting is referencing, as well as whether all values are translated and available in both languages and if it's incorrect whilst being seemingly valid please log a case (add me on the watchlist),

Many thanks,
kind regards

[Community Alums]

Hi @Alex Coope - SN 
the field type used for sorting is 'name'. All Values are translated and Available in both Languages.
Can we connect over this ?
Thanks in Advance!
Regards,
Mohammed Sazid