Hello, I am a developer from China. Since my English is not very good, I would like to ask whether the user documentation will consider providing international support?

[oomgomgxx]

Hello, I am a developer from China. Since my English is not very good, I would like to ask whether the documentation will be internationalized? I believe this will also be very beneficial to the promotion of the project itself. 🤔

[Legioth]

We don't have any immediate plans for translating the documentation. There was previously a crowd-sourced effort but there was never good coverage for any language and it was gradually becoming outdated as the translators didn't keep up with our changes.

I guess we could nowadays have automatic translations but the question then is whether those translations would be any better than the automatic translation that the reader can get through their browser without any effort from us?

[taefi]

An AI docs assistant could probably provide good enough answers in many languages(?).

[oomgomgxx]

We don't have any immediate plans for translating the documentation. There was previously a crowd-sourced effort but there was never good coverage for any language and it was gradually becoming outdated as the translators didn't keep up with our changes.

I guess we could nowadays have automatic translations but the question then is whether those translations would be any better than the automatic translation that the reader can get through their browser without any effort from us?

The browser's built-in translation function is sometimes not very useful, especially when the document page contains code blocks, the code is often translated by mistake. Of course, I think other translation plug-ins can probably be used to solve this problem, but if the official built-in language translation is available, it should be the best... In addition, seeing someone mention using AI for translation, I think this is indeed a good direction. 💡

[taefi]

There would be a docs assistant integrated with the docs at some point, but in the meanwhile, you may find the standalone docs assistant useful. Here is the forum post about it: https://vaadin.com/forum/t/vaadin-docs-assistant-2-0/168528
And here's the url to the service: https://vaadin-docs-assistant.fly.dev/

For example, I asked it the following question (hopefully it is not incorrect/improper):

在 Vaadin 中，如何实现一个支持懒加载、搜索和排序功能的 Grid 组件？

And it answered in Chinese, which I translated using the Chrome browser, and it looked good to me.