Language fixes (#5384)

* Add some comments

* Decouple language settings

* Normalize on read/write

* Refactor

* Support device locale on app startup

* Cleanup, port to web

* Clean up comments

* Comment

* Try not to mutate

* Protect util handling, update test

* Dedupe array values

1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/locale/deviceLocales.ts b/src/locale/deviceLocales.ts
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+import {getLocales as defaultGetLocales, Locale} from 'expo-localization'
+
+import {dedupArray} from '#/lib/functions'
+
+type LocalWithLanguageCode = Locale & {
+  languageCode: string
+}
+
+/**
+ * Normalized locales
+ *
+ * Handles legacy migration for Java devices.
+ *
+ * {@link https://github.com/bluesky-social/social-app/pull/4461}
+ * {@link https://xml.coverpages.org/iso639a.html}
+ */
+export function getLocales() {
+  const locales = defaultGetLocales?.() ?? []
+  const output: LocalWithLanguageCode[] = []
+
+  for (const locale of locales) {
+    if (typeof locale.languageCode === 'string') {
+      if (locale.languageCode === 'in') {
+        // indonesian
+        locale.languageCode = 'id'
+      }
+      if (locale.languageCode === 'iw') {
+        // hebrew
+        locale.languageCode = 'he'
+      }
+      if (locale.languageCode === 'ji') {
+        // yiddish
+        locale.languageCode = 'yi'
+      }
+
+      // @ts-ignore checked above
+      output.push(locale)
+    }
+  }
+
+  return output
+}
+
+export const deviceLocales = getLocales()
+
+/**
+ * BCP-47 language tag without region e.g. array of 2-char lang codes
+ *
+ * {@link https://docs.expo.dev/versions/latest/sdk/localization/#locale}
+ */
+export const deviceLanguageCodes = dedupArray(
+  deviceLocales.map(l => l.languageCode),
+)