UI: Language

[iandunn]

Implement the language field in the custom UI, see #18 for rough mockups

[dd32]

What does this Language selector actually do?

AFAIK it probably only controls the wp-admin locale - if so, we can ditch this field.

[iandunn]

Yeah, it's just the user locale setting. I would guess that there's some front end stuff that it affects as well, like learn.wordpress.org and a few other places that have front-end localization. It seems like it'd be important to keep, since we're planning for more of that in the future. Does that seem right to you?

[dd32]

I would guess that there's some front end stuff that it affects as well, like learn.wordpress.org and a few other places that have front-end localization.

If that were the case, yeah, I would agree with keeping it.

However, it's not actually used anywhere other than wp-admin at present that I'm aware of, including learn.w.org.

The thing it affects is get_user_locale() which is only used for the requests within wp-admin by default in https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/determine_locale/

Looking closer, it looks like all plugins on dotorg only use it within wp-admin, aside from the Pattern Directory which appears to respect it for notifications.

Given it's lack of use, I suggest we skip the field for now, given it doesn't actually affect the majority of users, there's a good chance whatever data we've stored in there might not even be correct.

[iandunn]

That WFM 👍🏻