How should we handle i18n for FSE templates?

[iandunn]

It sounds like blockbase had to create PHP templates

• Blockbase: make 404 into a php template so it can be translated Automattic/themes#4332
• Quadrat: translation Automattic/themes#3653

...and TwentyTwentyTwo had to create patterns.

those may be good arounds for us too, but still seems pretty hacky. it doesn't sound like gutenberg really supports i18n yet.

• Internationalization and localization: translating templates and template parts gutenberg#27402
• Inline Dynamic Content Solutions gutenberg#21932
• Discussion/i18n: Localising blocks in FSE themes gutenberg#36061
• How will translations be handled in block based themes? gutenberg#21204

will that be an issue when we launch this? i guess we'd continue using the old theme on rosetta sites anyway, since those just use the main theme for the entire site, rather than having a separate WP site for the blog.

[coreymckrill]

i guess we'd continue using the old theme on rosetta sites anyway, since those just use the main theme for the entire site, rather than having a separate WP site for the blog.

Ah this is good to know. In that case, I would guess that updating the design on rosetta sites would be a separate project. I would lean towards not worrying about translations for this project right now. There won't be a ton of strings, so it hopefully wouldn't be hard to add in translations once GB supports them.

[iandunn]

That sounds good to me 👍🏻

[iandunn]

Re-opening since we'll want to do this eventually, but moving it to the farthest-away milestone.

Maybe blocked by #13. We'll probably want to move this to the parent theme repo, and then backport to News.

[MaggieCabrera]

We can use block patterns for this. Check how Blockbase does it for the 404 pages while hiding the block pattern from the users in the editor.

[iandunn]

Yeah, that could be an acceptable workaround in the meantime, but I'm hoping one of the Gutenberg tickets above will provide something analogous to how PHP/JS files are translated. IMO that'd be a much better solution.

[MaggieCabrera]

Yeah, that could be an acceptable workaround in the meantime, but I'm hoping one of the Gutenberg tickets above will provide something analogous to how PHP/JS files are translated. IMO that'd be a much better solution.

From my experience and what I've talked with other GB contributors I don't think that's happening any time soon and it's not something easy to solve or clear as to how to do so