[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26511: Separate locale for the admin toolbar

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#26511: Separate locale for the admin toolbar
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 Reporter:  johnbillion      |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N             |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |
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Comment (by dimadin):

 For core strings you can switch language for admin bar, I made a
 [https://gist.github.com/dimadin/4247285 gist] with example coincidentally
 exactly a year ago.

 If you want admin bar in `en_US` and plugins add admin bar items at admin
 bar hooks, you could have admin bar in `en_US` by using `gettext` filters
 conditionally like in example above.

 Problem for not being able to load translations later for plugins and
 themes is because their translation is loaded once and there is no
 information about that textdomain (location, type). If we want a language
 switcher, we need to store that information since I don't see other way to
 load plugins and themes translations later.

 You could actually do this now by hooking to `load_*_textdomain()`
 functions but that is complicated.

 Note that on wpcom you can set interface language on profile and that will
 be used on admin bar even if you browse sites in other languages, don't
 know how do they do that.

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