Hi, We have defined a few titles in our forum and they are assigned them to users based on some conditions. Apparently, if a user changes their interface language to their native language, discourse translates the titles as well. It doesn’t happen for all languages (in our case it happened with Ita…

Oh yes, that would be another option. If you go to your /admin/customize/site_texts page and search for the badge title you want to rename, you can select each language and manually set it to your preferred version for each in there: [customise badge name per locale]

Titles are defined via group titles and badges. The title can be selected from the available options in profile preferences > account.

Any ideas about this issue? Is it expected or can be fixed?

Ah, sorry Armin. I caught a case of ‘unfinished draft’. I believe the badge titles are designed to be translated (where a translation exists), so they would seem to be working as expected. I suppose you could argue that they should be re-translated based on who’s viewing it, but I think that would …

Thank you @JammyDodger , You are right, the translated titles are the ones coming from badges. Although I think it brings confusion since two users with the same badge can have different (in language) titles, we can handle it by giving the badges a customized text (and I hope that solves our issue h…

Interface language in profile preferences translates badge titles

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JammyDodger February 9, 2024, 8:43am 2

Could you be more specific about where you’ve defined these titles?

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Interface language in profile preferences translates badge titles

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