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by aq3cn 2884 days ago
This software is available in 30+ langauge, but not in any Indian langauge. I wonder why developers Ignore translation of softwares in Indian Languages. If dev team is reading this, please contact me. I would translate this software in Hindi language.

Update: I wonder why this comment got downvoted any without explaination. HN is not same, as it used to be.

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>> I wonder why this comment got downvoted any without explaination. HN is not same, as it used to be.

Because this is a freeware program that is community-driven and you're blaming the developers when in reality it is the community that is failing to provide translations; largely the Indian language community, I might add.

Translators are welcome to help. Read this:

https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/localization

Thanks, I will do the the translation in my free time. I hope other people also join in.
Same reason booking.com shuttered the Hindi version of their website, educated Indians speak English and are very comfortable using it. When politicians have Hindi speeches written in Latin alphabet instead of Devanagari it shows something of the grip English has on the South Asian subcontinent, not just India.