Enable language packs

[AlbyIanna]

Motivation

We want to add the language packs whose translations have enough coverage on Transifex

Change description

Install the relative VS Code language pack extensions.

Adding the following languages:

• Chinese
• Dutch
• French
• German
• Japanese
• Turkish

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• The PR has no duplicates (please search among the Pull Requests before creating one)
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[per1234]

When testing this build, I see only the localizations provided by the language pack.

From the mention of the Transifex coverage being a factor in the decision regarding which language packs to install, I anticipated seeing the Arduino IDE-specific localization as well.

Will some additional work be needed on the IDE before we will see #768 have an effect?

[AlbyIanna]

When testing this build, I see only the localizations provided by the language pack.

yeah, it's still not working. Trying to figure out why.

[AlbyIanna]

Now it's working correctly. Please @per1234 @fstasi give it a try

[per1234]

I still don't see any of the Arduino-specific localizations with the build from fc4bba2:

Same results both on Windows 10 and Linux.

[AlbyIanna]

@per1234 this time I'm really confident that it will work! Please check once again 🙏

[per1234]

It is very exciting to see the localization of the IDE.
Thanks Alberto!

And thanks also to the translators for their valuable contributions to the project.

[stevisco]

this is super cool!

[kotobuki]

I am a contributor to Japanese, and I'm very excited to see the localised IDE. I found that some of the language resources (e.g. Undo, Redo etc.) are not from Arduino SRL -Arduino IDE 2.0 nor Mbanzi - Arduino IDE 1.5. I found inconsistencies in them, so I want to update them. Where do those localisations come from? 🤔

[per1234]

Hi @kotobuki. Thanks so much for your contributions and for your attention to the quality of the current localization!

The VS Code "language packs" are used as the localization source where possible so that the Arduino community only needs to localize the Arduino-specific strings rather than having to duplicate the efforts already made for the strings which are shared with VS Code.

The VS Code language pack used for the base Japanese localization is hosted here:

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-loc

Note that their system does not allow direct contribution to the content via pull requests to the repository. Instead, it is done by submitting issues to the repository, which will then be acted on by someone from Microsoft.

[kotobuki]

@per1234 Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I understand. I'll do my best for Arduino IDE specific resources and propose changes to the VSC repository.

[qizaizi]

The plugin directory is in the installation location arduino2.0\Arduino IDE\resources\app\plugins