First, thanks for excalidraw-full — the multi-canvas server-side dashboard is exactly the missing piece over vanilla Excalidraw. 🙏
Problem: The custom dashboard UI renders several hardcoded Chinese strings with no i18n or locale detection, so non-Chinese users see untranslatable text regardless of browser language. The Excalidraw editor itself is localized, but these custom components are not.
Where (in the excalidraw submodule, multi-canvas branch):
excalidraw-app/utils/time.ts — relative timestamps: 刚刚, ${n} 秒前, ${n} 分钟前, ${n} 小时前, ${n} 天前excalidraw-app/components/MyCreationsTab.tsx (~L85) — empty state 空空如也excalidraw-app/hooks/useCanvasManagement.ts (L101 / L140 / L165 / L203) — 4 toasts 您需要登录才能…excalidraw-app/components/AI.tsx — the text-to-diagram system prompt is Chinese-only (lower priority)
Impact: A self-hosted instance used by English (or any non-Chinese) speakers shows Chinese relative dates on every saved canvas, a Chinese empty-state, and Chinese error toasts. There's no setting or browser-locale path to change it since the strings are baked into the compiled frontend.
Suggested fix: Route these through the existing Excalidraw i18n (t() / language files) with English fallbacks, or — as a minimal first step — default the hardcoded literals to English. Happy to open a PR if you'd accept one.
First, thanks for excalidraw-full — the multi-canvas server-side dashboard is exactly the missing piece over vanilla Excalidraw. 🙏
Problem: The custom dashboard UI renders several hardcoded Chinese strings with no i18n or locale detection, so non-Chinese users see untranslatable text regardless of browser language. The Excalidraw editor itself is localized, but these custom components are not.
Where (in the
excalidrawsubmodule,multi-canvasbranch):excalidraw-app/utils/time.ts— relative timestamps:刚刚,${n} 秒前,${n} 分钟前,${n} 小时前,${n} 天前excalidraw-app/components/MyCreationsTab.tsx(~L85) — empty state空空如也excalidraw-app/hooks/useCanvasManagement.ts(L101 / L140 / L165 / L203) — 4 toasts您需要登录才能…excalidraw-app/components/AI.tsx— the text-to-diagram system prompt is Chinese-only (lower priority)Impact: A self-hosted instance used by English (or any non-Chinese) speakers shows Chinese relative dates on every saved canvas, a Chinese empty-state, and Chinese error toasts. There's no setting or browser-locale path to change it since the strings are baked into the compiled frontend.
Suggested fix: Route these through the existing Excalidraw i18n (
t()/ language files) with English fallbacks, or — as a minimal first step — default the hardcoded literals to English. Happy to open a PR if you'd accept one.