Add Language Dropdown to Settings

[jolierabideau]

User Story
As a user, I want to be able to select a language so that I can easily manipulate settings that handle language.

Description

• Investigate possible language dropdown someone in SIL has already made - John Hatton might know...?

  • Make sure you can select multiple languages and type your own language code in
  • Shadcn Combobox is probably a good place to start if SIL doesn't have a fitting one

• Add this component to the settings as a special case for the specific settings that handle language? Look at the data type and use this if the setting default value is an array of strings that includes the string 'en'...?

Implementation idea

See the links below for UX design doc and mockup:

Platform Settings – FigJam

Combined Settings – v0 by Vercel

[Sebastian-ubs]

Please show language names both in English (or the current language?) and the language it describes (like in Paratext 9).

[irahopkinson]

Please show language names both in English (or the current language?) and the language it describes (like in Paratext 9).

Including English like in P9 makes that dropdown far more cluttered than it needs to be. If you know and can read a language it is much easier to find without the English. Including English certainly helps the majority culture but no one else.