Languages other than english

[jimkreft]

Problem

Search.gov currently supports 58 different languages, using a mix of bing and . Jemison currently only supports English at this time. Postgres text indexing supports 28 languages, most notably missing ideographic languages such as chinese.

How did we discover this problem?

This is a documented capability of Search.gov, built to support major users like the state department, and then adopted and expanded to support other users such as Vote.gov.

Job Story(s)

When I enter a search in a language that Search.gov currently supports, I want to get a response so I can access the pages I am looking for.

What are we planning to do about it?

What are we not planning to do about it?

How will we measure success?

Language Code	BingV7	SearchGov	Grand Total
am	1	1	2
ar	19	4	23
az		1	1
bal	1		1
be	1		1
bg	1		1
bn	2	2	4
bs	1		1
cs	1		1
da	1		1
de	2	2	4
el	1	1	2
en	3402	1273	4675
es	53	56	109
et	1		1
fa	4	2	6
fr	15	14	29
ha	1		1
he	1		1
hi	4	1	5
hr		1	1
ht	3	1	4
hu		1	1
hy	1		1
id	1	2	3
it	4		4
ja	1	2	3
ka		1	1
kk	1		1
km	3		3
ko	1	3	4
ky	1		1
lo	2		2
lt	1		1
lv	1		1
me	1		1
mk	1		1
mn	1		1
ms	1	1	2
nl		1	1
pa	1		1
pl	1		1
ps	2		2
pt	7	5	12
ro	2		2
ru	16	3	19
sd	1	1	2
sk	1		1
so	1	1	2
sq	3		3
sr	1	1	2
sw	1		1
tg	2		2
th	2		2
tk	1		1
tl	3		3
tr	1	1	2
uk	1		1
ur	3	3	6
uz	1		1
vi	2	1	3
zh	9	5	14

[jadudm]

We can look at this story during planning. As written, the scope is too large for the next quarter/the pivot to a new infrastructure. We might scope it down to English and Spanish for the pivot, or think about how we're going to start with one language, and then design and implement a multi-lingual architecture.