[web] The default language (system) is always english

[loviuz]

There is a way to add the default language running the software on docker? It could be useful to set the default locale like adding a LOCALE environvment variable on docker. If you tell me where to set the variable on the code i could try to add the env variable to docker. I don't know dart, but I can work on docker.

Thanks in advance!

[ferraridamiano]

This could be done by passing options to the run command but it is not implemented. But if you set the language in the settings it should not change (even if the container restarts). What is your usecase?

[loviuz]

I would like to start ConverterNOW in italian because I would like to self-host it to italian people, but I do not want they have to change the language manually because some of them does not know english at all. For the moment, it is ok to manually pass some variables at any point 😅

[ferraridamiano]

The default setting is to use the system language of the browser. So if the PC language is Italian they should see the Italian translation of the app. This should be enough for your use case

[loviuz]

It could be enough, but I have tried with 3 different browsers on 2 devices (Firefox and Chromium from desktop, Firefox on Android), but the default language is always english. I have tried on https://converter-now.web.app/. It could be nice if the web application could start with the browser default language.

[ferraridamiano]

I renamed the title to highlight that there is a problem with the sistem language on web

I also investigated a possible solution to this. At the moment the app is using universal_io to get the device language. Unfortunately this package seems unmaintained. But a possible solution could come directly from the flutter team in the future. Please upvote that issue to prioritize the solution.

[ferraridamiano]

For your use case you can just change this line from 'en' to 'it' and manually recompile the app. Let me know if you have further issues