Feature request: Improve language support for Coun...

Feature request: Improve language support for Countdown Timers (with 2 possible solutions)

The new Countdown Timer feature is great, and amazingly simple to embed.

Unfortunately, the fixed words limits the timers' usability outside of English-speaking audiences. (One of our audiences we regularly send countdown timers to has over 35000 people in it but is not English-speaking, rendering this feature unusable for us for this audience.)

It would be amazing for applicability outside English-speaking audiences to implement a solution for this.

Historically with countdown timers there are two ways to do this.

1. Have a dropdown list with a language selection option. This is a common solution with popular countdown timer services like Countingdownto, Sendtric or Mailtimers. The upside is the dropdown is a very simple UI solution. The challenge is the list of languages to include and making sure the wording is right for each.

2. Have the "days", "hours", "minutes" and "seconds" editable on Countdown Timers. This could appear simply in the UI for editing the timers in emails as 4 short text fields ("Days text", "Hours text", "Minutes text" and "Seconds text" respectively). There's even space for it in the current version, and if it's a bit too much the whole four fields could be toggleable with a tickbox (eg. "Override wording" or "Translate display").

I hope one of the two can be implemented down the line. :)

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