copilot-multilingual.md

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Copilot Chat is Multilingual

Copilot Chat can understand numerous natural languages alongside programming languages.

✏️ Exercise 1: Use the language of your choice to talk to Copilot Chat

• Test Copilots Multilingual features.

  For this exercise we don't require any pre-set files from the Repo.

  • Choose any language and instruct Copilot Chat to create code. For example,

    • Tell Copilot Chat in...

    • Spanish:

      Importar todas las bibliotecas necesarias para FileStreaming
      

    • German:

      Importiere alle erforderlichen Bibliotheken für FileStreaming
      

  • Sample Output

    

    Note:

    • Without specifying a programming language and with no open code file as a reference, Copilot Chat will pick a language.
    • Copilot Chat might continue to use the language used in the request for its generated code

✏️ Exercise 2: Use Copilot Chat to translate your code to another programming language

• Example - Java to Python

  • Open the Validator.java class in your IDE (Tab) and ask in Copilot Chat,

    translate this class to Python
    

  • Sample output

    

• Try the exercise again with different 'target' languages (eg.: Go, Lisp, etc.)

  • Explore how Copilot Chat covers multiple languages.

  

  • Note: You can copy the generated code into your IDE