Kiwix JS is 10 years old today (well, technically yesterday, depending on your timezone)! We’ve been working hard behind the scenes to do something to mark the occasion, and so we decided to fix a very old issue on internationalizing the UI for the Kiwix JS Browser Extension version. So far, we’ve translated the UI into Spanish and French. More languages will follow in due course (it’s a time-consuming fiddly process).

If you’d like a sneak preview, you can see it in the DEV version which can be found here:

https://kiwix.github.io/kiwix-js/dist/www/index.html

If you don’t see the languages dropdown in Configuration, please make sure the version has updated to v3.9.3. After 7 seconds, it should offer you the update (simply exit the page and go back to it to fetch the updated Service Worker).

If your browser is set to French or Spanish (or English) as the default browser language, then it will automatically display that language. If it is set to another language, then English will be displayed. But you can use the dropdown to override the automatic selection.

This is a step on our mission to make Kiwix as universally accessible as possible. We will do a release to Browser Extension stores as soon as we are sure to have ironed out all bugs. If you encounter any, please either report it here, or make an issue on our GitHub: https://github.com/kiwix/kiwix-js/issues/