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August 9, 2025 development notes multilingualization

I am a big fan of Google Gemini CLI, but when I mentioned that I wanted to set up a blog on my website,I was introduced to Contentful, a free web service, and I am using it to write this.It may be easy to use once I get used to it, but my impression is that there are too many settings.This blog will be written in both Japanese and English for now.The Android apps and web services I’ve developed are often used by my students, given my profession as a Japanese language teacher,and currently, many of my students are from Nepal,so I may also start publishing blog posts in Nepali in the future.For now, I plan to write articles in Japanese, my native language, and eventually develop an automatic translation featureto expand into multiple languages such as English and Nepali.Many of the apps and web services I have developed are targeted at Japanese language learners,and I intend to use the automatic translation feature to automatically publish them in other languages already available in the multilingual versions, such as Vietnamese, Chinese, Myanmar, and Korean. Regarding the subtitles, it seems that Contentful requires the English version to be published first,otherwise the same content cannot be published in other languages, which is quite troublesome.Since I had already written the Japanese version first, I couldn't press the “Publish” button.It was quite a hassle.