I wonder if there is anyway to auto-translate linked items in chat on blizz’s end? Sure I know that clicking on a linked item from a Spanish player will then output in English via a tooltip, but it would be convenient to have the linked item already translated in chat. And this would be helpful for other languages too. All other player input text that doesn’t rely upon blizz items, spells, achievements, etc would remain as the player input originally.
So look at this as an example:
- Player A (of any language but let’s say English) links itemID=17056
Rather than outputting the linked item as the home language it exists in an amorphous state of being a linked itemID, numbers waiting to be linked to client appropriate text.
-So that when player B (Spanish) reads it in the chat, it is not [Light Feather] but rather [Pluma ligera]. - Player C (German) reads it dynamically as [Leichte Feder] and not [Light Feather].
Etc
Again this is not an appeal to isolate myself from other languages since my native tongue is English (I still can remember the 7 tenses for Spanish and can fumble around with romance languages if given text, plus still learning Russian) but rather be a convenience factor for people when working in multilingual groups or for chat trading.