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Locales

The built-in wording in English, German, French and Italian, and how to change it.

Witness ships English, German, French and Italian. German and French use the formal address ("Sie", "vous"), Italian the informal one ("tu"), as is common on the web in each language. Witness Pro adds the other 20 official EU languages.

Kind	en	de	fr	it
`chatbot`	AI assistant	KI-Assistent	Assistant IA	Assistente IA
`generated`	AI-generated	KI-generiert	Généré par IA	Generato con IA
`edited`	AI-edited	Mit KI bearbeitet	Modifié par IA	Modificato con IA
`deepfake`	Artificially generated	Künstlich erzeugt	Généré artificiellement	Generato artificialmente
`emotion-recognition`	Emotion recognition	Emotionserkennung	Reconnaissance des émotions	Riconoscimento delle emozioni
`biometric-categorisation`	Biometric categorisation	Biometrische Kategorisierung	Catégorisation biométrique	Categorizzazione biometrica

Each kind also has a title and a body. The texts are in src/i18n.ts.

Changing the wording

Override single strings for a locale, for example the informal "du":

import { registerLocale } from "@sweberdev/witness";

registerLocale("de", {
  kinds: {
    chatbot: {
      title: "Du chattest mit einer KI",
      body: "Dieser Assistent ist ein KI-System und kein Mensch. Seine Antworten können falsch sein.",
    },
  },
});

registerLocale also adds new languages; anything missing falls back to English. In React, pass messages to WitnessProvider instead.

Keep the meaning when you rewrite: the person must understand that they are dealing with an AI, or that the content was generated or changed by one.