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Provide proper i18n support

See original GitHub issue

Currently Plotly has poor i18n support.

You can not change d3 locale (issue #380)
Adjustment of rendered precision on date axis does not work when applying custom axis.tickformat if dates need to be rendered differently because of locale. If you want to keep that feature you have to patch hardcoded format strings: https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/blob/ad88139911d09b52cfafecc2bc7e72fc267b3a7f/src/plots/cartesian/axes.js#L879
Error messages, notifier messages, hover texts for default mode bar buttons are hardcoded in english https://github.com/plotly/plotly.js/issues/288

Currently I have to manually patch plotly for each release, which is pretty annoying.

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Created 7 years ago
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Comments:15 (9 by maintainers)

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alexcjohnsoncommented, Dec 18, 2017

I believe that between #2195 and #2207 this issue on i18n can be closed - but before I do so, I’d love some 👍 /👎 on the framework from folks who’ve weighed in here.

I’d also ❤️ if folks who need localization for their own purposes would be willing to PR those back into the main repo - filling in the translations, verifying the date formats, and adding decimal/thousands to the files in lib/locales. The full list of strings we need to translate is in dist/translation_keys.txt. The locale files we have currently are auto-generated from world-calendars which is itself a descendant of https://github.com/kbwood/calendars - but we’re certainly happy to accept any other locales you might want to contribute!

@florianleger thanks for pointing out your fork - I did some things the same way, other things differently, but it was very helpful to see what you had done. Does the current master branch of plotly.js work for your purposes now?

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sclausencommented, Apr 26, 2017

👍 The only thing that keeps us from moving from Highcharts to plotly.js

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