[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #28197: Fallback Languages

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#28197: Fallback Languages
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 Reporter:  downstairsdev  |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement    |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal         |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  I18N           |     Version:  4.0
 Severity:  normal         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                 |     Focuses:
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Comment (by ocean90):

 A translatable string doesn't seem to be the right way for this as it
 doesn't cover all use cases. Example: I speak English, Spanish and German.
 If German isn't available I'd like to have it fall back to Spanish. A
 translation team would probably never specify this. It needs to be a user
 choice IMO.

 A few months ago I
 [https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/polyglots/p1456920098000946 asked]
 if anyone knows some software which supports language fallbacks and
 [https://wordpress.slack.com/archives/polyglots/p1456920604000961
 suggested] to document the results. Looks like no one did that yet.

 Using this Trac ticket to find a solution is a bad idea. Taking this as a
 feature project is probably the right way, regular meetings and
 documenting the findings in a make/core post is something which would keep
 the idea alive.

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