multi languages support for buildin cli cmd's descriptions

[yp05327]

Feature Description

Gitea website support multi languages, but the build in cli cmd's descriptions only support English.
I think we can add multi languages support to gitea cli's descriptions.

The language will based on system setting or env variable such as GITEA_CLI_LANG.
I will work on this

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[yp05327]

Gitea uses urfave/cli to build a cli app, but it has no buildin translation support :(
urfave/cli#980

[wxiaoguang]

The idea is good, but it's not worth to spend time on it.

[lunny]

Sorry, I don't think we have enough resources to do that. I proposal to close this.

[delvh]

I also don't know of any localized CLI.
Do you have an example for one?
I missed something while reading:
I thought you wanted to localize the commands themselves, not their descriptions.

[yp05327]

@delvh @wxiaoguang @lunny
Im sorry for my bad English.
I means to localize the command descriptions, not the commands themselves.

If it's no necessary to do this, I will close this later.

[wxiaoguang]

I understood your description before. That's why I said "The idea is good, but it's not worth to spend time on it.". If you meant "commands themselves", I would say "that's impossible" at that time.

The CLI is mainly for site admin, they should have the basic English ability. I ever saw some GNU tools do i18n for their CLI, in the end few people (site admin) use or like them.

[zeripath]

@yp05327 I think it would be possible to do this with some fairly basic changes and a little magic related to looking at locale environment variables, so I'm gonna reopen this feature request.

However I'm not going to take any action to make it happen myself - at least not right now.

If you're interested in making this happen reach out to me on discord and we can chat.

[wxiaoguang]

At the moment, I think we shouldn't spend time on CLI i18n. The reasons are:

1. There are a lot of bugs in CLI now.
2. Some CLI texts are just from error messages.
3. We do not have a proper ICU message system.
4. The CLI i18n/l10n doesn't help end users too much, because they only use the web UI.
5. The localized texts may not work well in many systems without a proper environment.
6. If only the "description" is translated, the CLI is still mixed with different languages ......

So, I have objection for this change at the moment .....

[lunny]

I think so.