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Awesome! Definitely did not intend to make it sound like SerenityOS doesn't care about modern affordances. As for internationalization/accessibility, do you mean that these features are not supported in a "we can't display Unicode text" sense or a "we don't currently have active UI translations" sense?

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Andreas has recently mentioned that SerenityOS is meant to be an English-language OS. (Might have been on Discord or a Q&A video, not sure.)

I believe his rationale is that other languages are generally awkward at talking about technical stuff, and SerenityOS is addressed at technical users anyway. In my own experience as a French native speaker, I do tend to prefer all my software to be in English rather than getting the awkwardly-translated-in-French version.

As far as accessibility goes, like anything in the project, it's up to someone passionate to step up and work on it.

But you'd still want to read and write French text on your computer even if the UI is in English, right?

SerenityOS does have support for unicode, and the character sets are improving over time.

That's what I was hoping to hear, very nice!

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