Fallback to other locales

[jmen...@gmail.com]

As said in the other thread, if you start Google Web Designer and you have an unsupported locale set (such as Catalan in my case), Google Web Designer won't display due to a bug.

Moreover, since the unsupported locale is stored in localStorage, GWD won't start even after you change the locale setting; you also have to clear GWD data as well.

GWD should fallback to the next preferred locale in the list or, if there aren't, to English.

[San Khong]

I'm copying and pasting from the other thread so we can have the workaround posted here.

We've narrowed down the black screen issue with some locales (listed below).  We'll work on a fix and release it shortly.  Sorry for the inconvenience!

Workaround found by Xavier Mendez:

To fix, open terminal and type exactly:

  rm -r .local/share/google-web-designer

Then, to run GWD:

  LANGUAGE=en_US google-webdesigner

It will be started in english, you can now start it as normal.

If you're having the black screen problem on launch and you're not on these locales and/or Xavier's workaround does not work for you, please let us know.

bg-BG	Bulgarian
ca-ES	Catalan
hr-HR	Croatian
cs-CZ	Czech
da-DK	Danish
fil-PH, tl, tl-PH	Filipino
fi-FI	Finnish
el-GR	Greek
he*, he-IL, iw-IL	Hebrew
hi-IN	Hindi
hu-HU	Hungarian
id-ID, in, in-ID	Indonesian
lv-LV	Latvian
lt-LT	Lithuanian
no-NO, nb, nb-NO	Norwegian (Bokmål)
fa-IR	Persian
	Portuguese (European)
ro-RO, mo	Romanian
sr-RS, sr-Cyrl-RS	Serbian (Cyrillic)
sk-SK	Slovak
sl-SI	Slovenian
sv-SE	Swedish
uk-UA	Ukrainian
vi-VN	Vietnamese

[Xavier Mendez]

Don't you have a repository or something for users to contribute back?

I have translated GWD to Catalan for myself, it'd be nice to be able to contribute the changes back... :D

[verte...@gmail.com]

You may need to add "en_AU:en" to that list

Thanks,
John

[Xavier Mendez]

In fact, there are lots of locales missing in the list (the country variations),
i.e. for English there's en_US, en_UK, en_AU, en_IN, Catalan has ca_FR, ca_IT, ...

[San Khong]

Thanks for letting us know about the other locales.  The fix that we are testing right now will fallback to en_US if it cannot find the exact match for the language code that we have the translation for.  People can browse the language dropdown to pick the closest match.

San

GWD Team