README.md with multi language support?

[jinliming2]

Sometimes I need to display documents in different languages for different people.
Maybe we can use README.en.md, README.zh.md, README.zh_hans.md, etc to markup language of the document, and determine the display language for users according to browser language.

[jagd]

is it solved?

[jinliming2]

May not.
I had a wrong operation.

[SlyAceZeta]

I'm surprised that this isn't available. Definitely adding my +1 for supporting this.

[Nightenom]

Someone got something new about this needed future?

[kesarion]

A workaround would be to put the links to other languages in your default README.md, like in this example.

[jinliming2]

@kesarion This is a method to solve this problem, but not the best.

[jinliming2]

@github

[pidupuis]

@github

[cubesky]

@github

[fnky]

I propose to name README using language culture name, e.g. README.zh-CN.md, README.es-ES.md as languages can have cultural differences—like en-US and en-GB.

[BMaxV]

Might not be a bad idea to use the iso standard.

[jinliming2]

I think using language culture name is not a good idea for Chinese because even in mainland China there are many language branches, such as Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Xiang, etc. The vast majority of Chinese people are hard to understand more than one language. Just using zh-CN can not distinguish between these languages.
So I think we'd better use this rule: https://www.w3.org/International/articles/language-tags/, with the Language Subtag from IANA: https://www.iana.org/assignments/language-subtag-registry/language-subtag-registry.
But many browsers do not support these language categories, so it is necessary to keep zh. So, for Chinese:
Use zh-Hans for General Simplified Chinese, use zh-Hant for General Traditional Chinese, use zh-cmn-Hans for Mandarin with simplified words, use zh-yue-Hant for Cantonese with traditional words, and so on.

[jonasgeiler]

@github